Fed Proposes New SIFI Risk Rating System
The Federal Reserve today proposed a new supervisory rating scale for large bank holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets.
The Federal Reserve today proposed a new supervisory rating scale for large bank holding companies with more than $50 billion in assets.
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday, a group of bipartisan lawmakers urged Treasury to prioritize policy changes that would increase coordination between regulatory agencies conducting bank examinations to help reduce the compliance burden on financial institutions.
In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago today, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said that regulators should increase their efforts to monitor for liquidity risk among central counterparties by conducting stress tests on those entities.
Foreign investment in the U.S. banking system helps to diversify the financial system and drive economic growth, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said today in remarks at the SelectUSA Investment Summit in Washington, D.C.
Regulations based on asset size are “inappropriate and needlessly burdensome” for many banks with non-complex business models, and ultimately lead to higher costs and fewer choices for consumers, ABA said in written testimony submitted for a Senate Banking Committee hearing on regulatory relief for midsize and regional banks today.
The Treasury Department tonight issued a 150-page report making dozens of recommendations for how Congress and regulatory agencies can streamline bank regulation in a way that promotes economic growth.
As part of the banking industry’s continuing response to President Trump’s executive order outlining “core principles” for financial regulation, ABA submitted two white papers to the Treasury Department today with recommendations for reforming current mortgage lending rules and regulations and the government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Testifying before the Senate Banking Committee today, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he is hoping to collaborate with senators on financial regulatory relief and housing finance reform.
With interest rates on the rise and new leadership in D.C., risk conditions on the ground are considerably different today from one year ago.
The Federal Reserve and the FDIC today published the answers to frequently asked questions about guidance issued last year on the resolution plans that the nation’s eight largest banks are required to submit detailing how they would be wound down in the event of bankruptcy. The FAQs address capital and liquidity requirements and forecasting, governance