The Federal Reserve Board announced today that it will continue its policy of not deploying the countercyclical buffer (CCyB), a decision it reached after assessing the considerations in ...
Does the bipartisan Senate bill described in our earlier post leave large banks, i.e., banking organizations with $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, and foreign banking or...
On November 21, 2017, the Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) has published its 2017 list of global systemically important banking organizations (“G-SIBs”) as determined by its annu...
The U.S. banking agencies (the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC) have delayed the last phase of the U.S. Basel III capital rules’ transition provisions relating to certain deductions from ...
The bipartisan Senate bill would open the door to welcome relief for regional and community bank holding companies (BHCs) by raising the statutory threshold for enhanced prudential standa...
On Tuesday the House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1624) that would require the federal banking agencies to amend their liquidity rules (including the LCR Rule) to treat all “m...
The U.S. banking agencies this week released a proposal that would significantly amend the U.S. Basel III capital rules of all three agencies by simplifying the capital treatment of sever...
On Tuesday the House Committee on Financial Services passed along to the whole House a bill that would require the federal banking agencies to amend their liquidity rules (including the L...
The U.S. banking agencies (the Federal Reserve, OCC and FDIC) propose to delay the last phase of the U.S. Basel III capital rules’ transition provisions relating to certain deductions f...
Recently, certain derivatives clearinghouses have changed their rulebooks to treat daily payments of mark-to-market variation margin as settlement payments of the derivatives transactions...
