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Posted Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
Banks reported $256.9 billion in first-quarter net income, representing a $30 billion drop from the fourth quarter of 2023 and a year-over-year decrease of $6 billion, according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s latest Quarterly Banking Profile. About 70 percent of the drop-off was attributed to specific, nonrecurring, noninterest expenses at large banks. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
House Republicans celebrated the passage of H.R. 2799, which aims to facilitate capital formation by strengthening public markets, helping small businesses and entrepreneurs and creating new investment opportunities. The bill passed via a 212-205 vote along party lines. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
The American Bankers Association issued a white paper titled, “Effective agency guidance: Examining bank regulators guidance practices,” where it voiced its and other trade association’s concern over agency use of guidance “to advance regulatory policy agendas.” Industry experts shared their takeaways from the report.
ABA President Rob Nichols referenced the white paper, along with copies of recent comment letters, in a letter to the federal financial regulators requesting their consideration of the feedback. Richard Andreano of Ballard Spahr, Loretta Salzano of Franzén and Salzano, and Mike Silver of Husch Blackwell, LLP spoke about their takeaways from the report. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2024
Between merging banks and merging credit scoring models, financial regulators still have to find time to conduct examinations and rulemaking activities. Here are a few synopses of activities and announcements that recently came out of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
From procedural rule updates to assisting institutions hit by natural disasters, federal regulators undertake a wide scope of activities that do not often make for major news headlines but are impactful nonetheless. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2024
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Federal Reserve’s 2024 hypothetical stress test scenarios are the first to incorporate
elements the agency is studying as part of its “exploratory analysis” of the
banking system. The analysis is distinct from the stress test but will
complement it by offering aggregate results tested against different economic
and financial conditions. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, March 1, 2024
Federal banking regulators released their 2023 Shared National Credit (SNC) report assessing credit quality and risk factors associated with large, syndicated bank loans as “moderate” despite some downward trends attributed to high interest rates. The SNC program assesses risk among the largest and most complex credit facilities shared by regulated financial institutions and nonbank investors. Read on »
Posted Date: Friday, February 23, 2024
The financial industry is pushing back against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s proposed updates to corporate governance guidelines aimed at preventing bank failures like those in spring 2023. The guidelines would apply to banks with more than $10 billion in assets. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently announced its efforts to provide relief to consumers victimized by an illegal student loan debt-relief operation. Learn more about this matter, as well as what new information the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has to share in its latest update on the ongoing independent investigation into its workplace culture, along with news from the Federal Housing Finance Agency and the Federal Reserve. Read on »
Posted Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2024
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council released principles intended to help member entities determine whether a supervised institution’s residential property valuation practices are adequate for identifying and mitigating discrimination or bias. Read on »
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