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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.

Purpose

The monitor exists to catch supervisory concern as it forms. Long before a priority hardens into a rule or a formal examination program, it surfaces in the letters, bulletins, and risk reports the agencies publish. Reading those documents systematically shows what is rising and what is receding in supervisory attention, quarter by quarter and agency by agency, and it does so for the contemporary risks — cyber, climate, crypto, third-party dependence — that the long historical index was never designed to name. Practitioners use it to anticipate where supervisory focus is heading; the quarterly briefs are built on it. Its goal is an early, comparable read of shifting priorities, sourced entirely from the public record.

The series

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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.