Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Mo.) today wrote to Federal Housing Finance Agency Acting Director Joseph Otting today requesting information on how the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s current expected credit loss standard will affect Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

The Financial Accounting Standards Board’s current expected credit loss standard presents significant operational challenges and stakeholders are concerned about real and potentially severe economic effects, participants noted at a roundtable discussion hosted by FASB today.

Setting ABA’s government relations agenda for 2019.

Noting the lack of guidance for community banks related to the CECL accounting standard, ABA today wrote to the financial regulatory agencies advising them to request a delay of the standard’s implementation until such guidance is issued.

In addition to final rules generally concerning 199A qualified business income deductions, the IRS last Friday concurrently issued proposed rules addressing how the deduction would affect charitable remainder trusts, split-interest trusts and regulated investment companies.

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While generally positive, preliminary analysis of the final pass-through rules suggests mixed results for a few issues of concern to S-corp banks.

Three-quarters of bank investors disagree that change is necessary to loan loss accounting rules, while just 17 percent support a change, according to a recent survey of non-management bank investors conducted by FIG Partners.

The rapid pace of change will continue in 2019, ABA policy staff project.

The American Bankers Association last week submitted a comment letter to the Internal Revenue Service offering feedback on proposed regulations related to the Opportunity Zone tax incentive.