Agencies Finalize Three Rules Issued as Part of Pandemic Response
The federal banking agencies today finalized several rules originally issued as interim final rules during the spring weeks of the emergency coronavirus response.
The federal banking agencies today finalized several rules originally issued as interim final rules during the spring weeks of the emergency coronavirus response.
FDIC-insured banks and savings institutions earned $18.8 billion in the second quarter of 2020, a 70% decline from a year prior, the FDIC reported today.
As the deadline for an ABA-advocated, congressionally mandated Treasury Department study of the current expected credit loss standard looms, ABA recently wrote to Treasury to provide its view on which aspects of CECL the study must address.
As reported by Politico this week, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) wrote to the heads of the financial regulatory agencies urging them to extend certain CARES Act relief provisions.
The Federal Reserve has announced temporary revisions to its Form FR Y-14A/Q/M, the Capital Assessments and Stress Testing Reports.
A bipartisan group of senators yesterday urged Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to direct the Financial Stability Oversight Council to conduct a study on the current expected credit loss accounting standard’s effect on lending and the economy.
Three years after it was issued—and amid numerous congressional hearings, a mandate for the Treasury Department to study its economic impacts, and recent regulator calls for reconsideration—the CECL accounting standard became effective for most large banks on January 1, 2020.
Whether institutions are using CECL or incurred loss methodology, estimating credit losses in today’s pandemic-stressed economic environment is challenging to say the least.
In a comment letter to the financial regulatory agencies today, ABA warned of potential unintended consequences that could arise as a result of a recent interim final rule delaying the three-year phase-in of the regulatory capital effects of the CECL standard for two years.
The financial regulatory agencies today issued a final interagency policy statement on determining allowances for credit losses under the current expected credit loss methodology.