Threats to U.S. financial stability remained within a medium range but edged higher with the United Kingdom’s referendum calling for an exit from the European Union, the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research reported today.
The OCC is focusing on credit risk and strategic risk as the top risk priorities in its supervision of community and midsize banks, according to the agency’s Semiannual Risk Perspective report released today.
After persistent and active industry advocacy led by the American Bankers Association, the Basel Committee today announced that it has abandoned plans to impose a new capital regime tied to interest rate risk.
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Consolidation in the banking sector is set to accelerate.
The FDIC today released updated videos to help bank directors, management and staff better understand and manage interest rate risk.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will make credit risk and cyber risk a focus over the coming months, the agency said in its Semiannual Risk Perspective report released today.
Threats to U.S. financial stability remained within a medium range, but edged higher in 2015, the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Research reported today.
Comptroller of the Currency Tom Curry in a speech today expressed concern about growing credit risk in auto loans, noting relaxed underwriting standards and the fact that 30 percent of new vehicle loans now have maturities of more than six years. “What is happening in this space today reminds me of what happened in mortgage-backed
Market rates along the curve rarely move in a parallel fashion, and the change in the slope of the curve can be just as important as the actual change in rates.