There are established within the Office, to carry out the programmatic responsibilities of the Office-
The Data Center, on behalf of the Council, shall collect, validate, and maintain all data necessary to carry out the duties of the Data Center, as described in this part. The data assembled shall be obtained from member agencies, commercial data providers, publicly available data sources, and financial entities under subparagraph (B).
The Office may, as determined by the Council or by the Director in consultation with the Council, require the submission of periodic and other reports from any financial company for the purpose of assessing the extent to which a financial activity or financial market in which the financial company participates, or the financial company itself, poses a threat to the financial stability of the United States.
Before requiring the submission of a report from any financial company that is regulated by a member agency, any primary financial regulatory agency, a foreign supervisory authority, or the Office shall coordinate with such agencies or authority, and shall, whenever possible, rely on information available from such agencies or authority.
The Office shall collect, on a schedule determined by the Director, in consultation with the Council, financial transaction data and position data from financial companies.
The Office shall promulgate regulations pursuant to subsections (a)(1), (a)(2), (a)(7), and (c)(1) of section 5343 of this title regarding the type and scope of the data to be collected by the Data Center under this paragraph.
The Data Center shall prepare and publish, in a manner that is easily accessible to the public-
The Data Center shall not publish any confidential data under subparagraph (A).
The Director shall ensure that data collected and maintained by the Data Center are kept secure and protected against unauthorized disclosure.
The Data Center shall maintain a catalog of the financial entities and instruments reported to the Office.
The Data Center shall make data collected and maintained by the Data Center available to the Council and member agencies, as necessary to support their regulatory responsibilities.
The Office shall, after consultation with the member agencies, provide certain data to financial industry participants and to the general public to increase market transparency and facilitate research on the financial system, to the extent that intellectual property rights are not violated, business confidential information is properly protected, and the sharing of such information poses no significant threats to the financial system of the United States.
The Research and Analysis Center, on behalf of the Council, shall develop and maintain independent analytical capabilities and computing resources-
Not later than 2 years after July 21, 2010, and not later than 120 days after the end of each fiscal year thereafter, the Office shall prepare and submit a report to Congress.
Each report required by this subsection shall assess the state of the United States financial system, including-
1 So in original. No par. (2) has been enacted.
12 U.S.C. § 5344
- Director
- The term "Director" means the Director of the Bureau.
- State
- The term "State" means any State, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or the United States Virgin Islands or any federally recognized Indian tribe, as defined by the Secretary of the Interior under section 5131(a) of title 25.