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VA encourages volunteers to "Carry The Load" for an American hero during trek across country
April 26, 2022
WASHINGTON — Beginning April 28, volunteers organized by Carry The Load, in collaboration with the Department of Veterans Affairs' National Cemetery Administration will visit 50 national cemeteries during a 20,000-mile march along five separate routes covering 48 states — converging on Memorial Day weekend for final rally in Dallas, Texas.
https://www.cem.va.gov/pressreleases/Volunteers_to_Carry_The_Load_for_an_American_hero_Apr2022.asp
GAO’s Latest COVID Relief Report Makes 15 New Recommendations on Improper Payments, Public Health Data Collection, and Critical Manufacturing
WASHINGTON, DC (April 27, 2022)— As the country enters its third year of the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is making new recommendations to reduce improper payments in COVID-19 programs and improve public health data collection. Those recommendations can be found in GAO’s 10th comprehensive report on the nation’s COVID-19 relief efforts under the CARES Act, which the agency is releasing today.
https://www.gao.gov/press-release/gaos-latest-covid-relief-report-makes-15-new-recommendations-improper-payments-public-health-data-collection-and-critical-manufacturing
GAO is required by statute (31 U.S.C. § 719(g)) to prepare, and make available online, a list of reports issued monthly and annually.
Month in Review, April 2022
The Month in Review is a comprehensive list of all reports, testimony, correspondence and other publications issued by GAO during the month, grouped according to topics. We assign more than one topic to a report when that makes sense. For example, a report about education for veterans will be categorized as both a Veterans report and an Education report. So, you may see the same report in more than one topic below.
https://www.gao.gov/reports-testimonies/month-in-review/2022/April
May 25, 2022
9:30 AM EDT
CFTC Announces Staff Roundtable Discussion on Non-intermediation
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/Events/opaeventstaffroundtable052522
Staff of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission will hold a public roundtable on May 25, 2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., to discuss issues related to intermediation in derivatives trading and clearing.
With limited exceptions, derivatives trading today is conducted through regulated intermediaries who perform many important functions, including providing customers with access to exchanges and clearinghouses, processing transactions, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, and guaranteeing performance of the derivatives contract to the clearinghouse. Recently, however, a number of registered entities have discussed with CFTC staff proposals to offer “non-intermediated” or direct trading and clearing of margined products to retail customers.
The goal of the roundtable is to gather information and receive expert input from a wide variety of stakeholder groups regarding the impact non-intermediation could have in the context of CFTC-registered derivatives clearing organizations (DCOs) and what it means for derivatives trading and clearing more generally. The roundtable will include participants from DCOs, futures commission merchants (FCM), FCM customers, end-users, academics, proprietary traders, public interest groups, and others.