On October 15, 2012, the FDIC
published in the Federal Register a final rule on annual stress
testing (Annual Stress Test Rule) that is applicable to all state
nonmember banks and state savings associations with over $10
billion in total consolidated assets (covered banks) pursuant to
the requirements of section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act). The
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Board) issued annual
stress test final rules for their regulated entities near in time
to the FDIC’s Annual Stress Test Rule. The regulations across the
Federal banking agencies are consistent and comparable as required
by the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act stress testing
requirements apply to all covered banks (those with over $10
billion in total consolidated assets), but the FDIC recognized that
the stress tests conducted by covered banks with consolidated total
assets of $50 billion or more would be applied to more complex
portfolios, and therefore warranted a broader set of reports to
adequately capture the results of the company-run stress tests.
These reports necessarily required more detail than would be
appropriate for smaller, less complex institutions. Therefore, in
coordination with the other Federal banking agencies, the FDIC
specified separate reporting templates: (1) for covered banks with
total consolidated assets of greater than $10 billion and less than
$50 billion and (2) for covered banks with total consolidated
assets of $50 billion or more. The FDIC’s, the OCC’s, and Board’s
Annual Stress Test Rules require their respective covered
institutions with total consolidated assets of $50 billion or more
to conduct annual stress tests and report on those tests to the
relevant agency by March 31, 2016. The FDIC, OCC, and Board have
coordinated the revisions to the reporting templates that the
covered institutions in this category will use to report. On April
14, 2014, the FDIC published a final rule in the Federal Register
that revised and replaced the FDIC's risk-based and leverage
capital requirements to be consistent with agreements reached by
the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in “Basel III: A Global
Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems”
(Basel III). The revisions included implementation of a new
definition of regulatory capital, a new common equity tier 1
minimum capital requirement, a higher minimum tier 1 capital
requirement, and, additional requirements for banking organizations
subject to the Advanced Approaches capital rules. All banking
organizations that were not subject to the Advanced Approaches Rule
had to begin to comply with the revised capital framework on
January 1, 2015. In light of the finalization of the Basel III
capital rules, the FDIC is revising the FDIC DFAST-14A reporting
templates by adding data items, deleting data items, and redefining
existing data items. These changes will (1) provide additional
information to greatly enhance the ability of the FDIC to analyze
the validity and integrity of firms' projections, (2) improve
comparability across firms, and (3) increase consistency between
the FR Y-14A reporting templates and DFAST-14A reporting
templates.
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