The Federal Housing Administration today published a final rule removing Libor as an approved index for adjustable-rate mortgages and replacing it with the Secured Overnight Financing Rate as the approved index for newly originated forward ARMs, effective March 31. According to the agency, the rule also codifies the same changes made for newly originated reverse home equity conversion mortgage ARMs, makes clarifying regulatory changes to the requirements for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs, and establishes a 10 percentage points maximum lifetime adjustment cap for monthly adjustable HECM ARMs.
ABA urges FDIC to take ‘enhanced view’ of liquidity risk in call reports
Deposit data currently collected in call reports is not a good indicator of risk and may encourage examiners, investors and other stakeholders to focus too narrowly on single data points when assessing a bank’s financial condition, ABA said.