A variety of links to articles/interviews on current topics that may be of interest.

A variety of links to articles/interviews on current topics that may be of interest.

If you are looking for a job in the field of banking regulation and oversight, Uncle Sam wants you. They just announced they will be hiring 1600 new employees and are practically doubling their Receivership budget for next year.

It sure doesn’t look like Sheila Bair thinks things in the banking world have hit bottom yet. 2010 is going to be a very busy year for the FDIC.

Last night I went to bed before I looked at the new SWIFT Agreement giving the US access to all of Europe’s finance data to track for terrorists. Here’s that agreement and here’s a Q&A document about what the agreement does. The agreement is instructive both for what it suggests about the negotiations between the US and EU, but also for what it suggests about the protections the US is willing to grant citizens of other countries that it is not extending to its own citizens.