Browsing: Regulatory capital
Fed Proposes Risk-Based Capital Requirements for Insurance Firms It Oversees
The Federal Reserve today proposed to establish risk-based capital requirements for the eight depository institution holding companies it oversees that are significantly engaged in insurance activities.
Fed’s Quarles Floats Potential Changes to Stress Capital Buffer Proposal
The Federal Reserve is considering further refinements to its stress capital buffer proposal in response to industry calls for greater simplification, Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles said in a speech today.
ABA Urges Changes to HVCRE Land Development Loan Proposal
The federal banking agencies’ June proposal to clarify the regulatory capital treatment of land development loans for single-family homes does not conform with the intent of the S. 2155 regulatory reform law, ABA said in a comment letter yesterday.
ABA, State Bankers Associations Call for Early Adoption for Regulatory Capital Relief
The American Bankers Association and 52 state associations wrote to the heads of the financial regulatory agencies yesterday urging them to allow the early adoption of relief provisions included in the recently finalized capital simplification rule.
Agencies Issue Final Capital Simplification Rule
The financial regulatory agencies today issued a joint final rule to simplify the Basel III regulatory capital calculations for all but the very largest banks.
Quarles: Transparency, Simplicity Guide Fed’s Approach to Stress Test Changes
In remarks at a conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston today, Fed Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles highlighted ways his agency is working to make stress tests more transparent, simple and less volatile.
FSB: GSIBs Meeting Loss Absorbing Capacity Requirements
Progress by the largest banks in implementing the total loss-absorbing capacity standard has been “steady and significant,” according to a review published this week by the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board.
Fed Approves Capital Plans for U.S. Banks
The Federal Reserve today did not object to the capital plans of 18 large banks participating in the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review.
Basel Committee Makes Changes to Treatment of Client Cleared Derivatives
The Basel Committee today announced that it will revise the leverage ratio treatment of client cleared derivatives to align it with the standardized approach to measuring counterparty credit risk exposures, or SA-CCR.