• Lot of progress made strengthening economy
  • US financial system is stronger
  • Urges vigilance to potential new threats
  • US to press EU and Asia to match robust financial oversight
  • Putting reforms in place taken longer than hoped
  • US reforms to meet test of ending too big to fail
  • Volcker rule will put in place tough restrictions, voting on rule will begin next week
  • Dodd-Frank rules address root causes of financial crisis

The comments are a pre-release of a speech he’s making in Washington later. We also have US Q3 GDP data at 13.30 gmt