ABA: Basel Proposal on Interest Rate Risk Is Counterproductive
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s proposed interest rate risk capital requirement is fundamentally flawed and could ultimately increase interest ...
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House Panel Examining Risk of Puerto Rican Default
Rep. Sean Duffy (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee’s oversight subcommittee, recently wrote to the FDIC requesting information ...
HVCRE Rule Ignores Reality of Real Estate Market
The high-volatility commercial real estate (HVCRE) regulation, effective as of Jan. 1, 2015, mandates that, in order to be exempt ...
Fed Finalizes Higher Capital Surcharge Rule for Largest Banks
The Federal Reserve today voted to finalize a rule imposing capital surcharges on the largest U.S.-based global systemically important banks.
ABA, State Associations Seek Relief for Highly Capitalized Banks
ABA and the state bankers associations yesterday wrote to the federal banking regulators, continuing their pursuit of relief from the ...
ABA: Basel Proposal on Interest Rate Risk ‘Overly Prescriptive’
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision yesterday proposed an interest rate risk capital requirement, which ABA deemed “out of line ...
GSEs Issue New Seller, Servicer Eligibility Requirements
At the direction of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac yesterday announced new standards that mortgage ...
ABA Files Second Comment Letter on Regulatory Burden Review
ABA last week filed its second comment letter in response to the decennial EGRPRA regulatory burden review that the federal ...
Here and Now: The Best of Times for Community Banking
Americans are eager for products and brands that are local, handcrafted, neighborly. This, Joshua Siegel writes, is an opportunity for ...
