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What is hiking?
April enjoys this outdoor activity, weather permitting.
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What is the The Best Sandwich Place?
This sandwich shop, which also goes by the acronym TBSP, is a common lunch spot close to 1850 K Street.
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Who is Sarah Bloom Raskin?
President Biden's first nominee for Vice Chair of Supervision.
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Bank Holding Company
BHC is an acronym for this term.
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What is a Ponzi Scheme?
A form of fraud that lures in new investors by promising high returns, and pays earlier investors using funds deposited by later investors.
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What are the Philadelphia Eagles?
Chad is primarily a fan of this football team.
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What is the Bottom Line?
This underground pub on I Street is an occasional destination for office happy hours.
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What is seven?
The number of seats on the Board of Governors.
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Bank Secrecy Act/Anti Money-Laundering
BSA/AML is an acronym for this series of regulations.
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What is trade surveillance?
Communicating trading activity on unauthorized platforms such as personal texts/emails can constitute a violation of this safeguard against market manipulation.
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What is Florida?
Tiffany lived in this state before moving to DC.
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What is Brutalism?
The International Square building is an example of this architectural style.
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What is the Dodd-Frank Act?
This legislation established the position of Vice Chair of Supervision.
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What is the System Fintech Supervision Program?
SFSP is an acronym for this working group.
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What is sanctions evasion? (Will also accept money laundering).
Obscuring the origin or destination of funds linked to high-risk states such as Venezuela, Iran, or Russia constitutes a form of this financial crime.
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Where is Kazakhstan?
Caro has lived in the Central Asian country.
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What are the 4th, 7th, 8th, and 12th floors?
The Federal Reserve leases these floors of the 1850 K Street building.
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What is St. Louis, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Boston?
The FOMC currently includes the rotating Reserve Bank heads of these four regional banks.
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Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
SWIFT is an acronym for this financial messaging organization.
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What is wrong-way risk?
This form of risk occurs when credit exposure to a counterparty increases together with the risk of the counterparty's default.
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Who are Phil, Harper, and Katherine?
These three LISCC staffers are currently enrolled in part-time Masters programs.
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What are CBRE, Tishman Speyer, Milbank, and First American?
These are the other non-Fed tenants of the 12th floor.
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What is "K"?
The middle initial of the first Vice Chair for Supervision.
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What is Capital adequacy, Asset quality, Management, Earnings, Liquidity, Sensitivity to market risk?
CAMELS is an acronym for these five rating components.
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