Margin, Capital Requirements for Uncleared Swaps Finalized; Small Banks Exempt
The FDIC, OCC and Farm Credit Administration today approved a final rule that requires prudentially-regulated swap dealers and participants to ...
Tag: Risk management
Three Risk Management Tenets for Growth in a Difficult Environment
Recent trends, from the drop in oil prices to changes in the auto loan market, underscore the importance of risk ...
OCC: Trading Revenue Falls in Second Quarter
Commercial banks reported total trading revenue of $5.5 billion in the second quarter of 2015, 28.1 percent lower than in ...
Report: FDIC Role ‘Inconsequential’ to Operation Choke Point
The FDIC played an “inconsequential” role in the Justice Department’s Operation Choke Point, according to a report today from the ...
CFTC Urged to Consider Competitive Implications of Margin Rules
In a comment letter yesterday, ABA and its ABA Securities Association subsidiary yesterday urged the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to ...
Weekly Infobyte: What Do Cyber Insurance Policies Include?
Eighty-eight percent of banks carry cyber insurance, but their specific policies differ in what they cover.
Report: Bankers Expect Rising Premiums for Cyber, FIB, Property Insurance
Results from ABA’s 2015 Bank Insurance Survey Report show that bankers expect most of their insurance premiums to remain the ...
OCC Clarifies Guidance on Commodity Hedging
The OCC issued a bulletin today clarifying its limits on physical commodity transactions by banks. Preexisting OCC guidance allows the ...
Treasury’s Raskin Focusing on Improving Cyber Info-Sharing
The Treasury Department is seeking to accelerate declassification of financial cyber threat information to help financial institutions protect their systems ...
Agencies Release Cybersecurity Self-Assessment Tool
The agencies of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council yesterday released a free cybersecurity self-assessment tool to help financial institutions ...
