The Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC) has issued a rule that revises the FDIC’s
requirements for stress testing by FDIC-supervised institutions,
consistent with changes made by Section 401 of the Economic Growth,
Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act (EGRRCPA).
Specifically, the rule amends the FDIC’s existing stress testing
regulations at 12 CFR Part 325 to change the minimum threshold for
applicability from $10 billion to $250 billion, revises the
frequency of required stress tests by FDIC-supervised institutions,
and reduces the number of required stress testing scenarios from
three to two. The rule also makes certain conforming and technical
changes that were previously included in an April 2019 notice of
proposed rulemaking that was superseded, in part, by the enactment
of EGRRCPA. On May 17, 2012, the OCC, along with the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve (FRB), published guidance on the use of stress
testing as a means to better understand the range of a banking
organization’s potential risk exposures. The guidance provides an
overview of how a banking organization should structure its stress
testing activities to ensure they fit into the banking
organization’s overall risk management program. The purpose of the
guidance is to outline broad principles for a satisfactory stress
testing framework and describe the manner in which stress testing
should be used, that is as an integral component of risk management
applicable at various levels of aggregation within a banking
organization as well as a tool for capital and liquidity planning.
While the guidance is not intended to provide detailed instructions
for conducting stress testing for any particular risk or business
area, it does include descriptions of several types of stress
testing activities and how they may be most appropriately used by
banking organizations. The guidance also does not explicitly
address the stress testing requirements imposed upon certain
companies by section 165(i) of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act).
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