ABA today joined four other financial trade organizations in a comment letter to the financial regulatory agencies offering feedback on a proposal establishing a new approach for calculating the exposure amount of derivative contracts under the regulatory capital rule.
In an American Banker op-ed today, ABA EVP Wayne Abernathy questioned the effectiveness of the more than two dozen regulatory capital requirements that banks are subject to and highlighted the need for greater tailoring.
Loan committees and chairs should be positioned to play a role to facilitate discussions about the new loan loss accounting standard.
A group of five senators — including Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) — today wrote to the Government Accountability Office calling for a review of Federal Reserve guidance on large bank supervision.
The Federal Reserve on Friday issued its semiannual monetary policy report, just ahead of Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee next week.
In a letter to Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles in late December, the American Bankers Association urged the Fed to issue an interim final rule providing relief from the 2019 stress testing cycle for smaller regional institutions (“Category IV banks”).
In a bid to prevent what it calls “window-dressing,” a form of regulatory arbitrage around disclosure deadlines, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has proposed revisions to its disclosure framework for the Basel III leverage ratio.
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision today issued updated Pillar 3 disclosure requirements reflecting the “Basel IV” capital framework released in December 2017.
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The nation’s largest banks are strongly capitalized and are holding more liquid assets than they were in the leadup to the financial crisis, the Federal Reserve noted today in its inaugural report on financial stability.