Attention Monitor
What the agencies are writing about now — quarterly, across twenty contemporary policy domains.
Supervisors speak to banks through two kinds of documents. The institutional record — annual reports and examination handbooks — states what examination emphasized and instructs examiners; the Supervisory Priorities Index measures that record annually back to 1863. The running commentary — guidance letters, supervisory bulletins, semiannual risk perspectives, financial stability reports — communicates the agencies' current concerns, and it moves quarter by quarter. The monitor measures the commentary. It scores those publications against twenty contemporary policy domains, from credit and liquidity risk to cyber, climate, crypto, and third-party risk. It begins in 1989 because the genres it tracks barely existed before then; systematic series of interpretive letters and risk reports are a modern development, and the earlier record belongs to the index.
| Unit | Publication series × quarter × policy domain |
|---|---|
| Coverage | 1989–present |
| Domains | 20 policy domains, including cyber, climate, crypto, fintech |
| Source | Agency guidance, bulletins, risk reports (public record) |
| Role | Monitoring; the backbone of the quarterly briefs |
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Current state
This panel is the backbone of the quarterly brief, which reports each agency's current emphasis against its own history.