HVCRE: The Continuing Saga of Lenders
On September 10, the Fed released the prepared remarks given by the Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, on changes to the Basel III endgame proposal and the capital surcharge for global systemically important banks...more
On Tuesday, September 10, the Federal Reserve announced a reproposal of the much discussed and awaited Basel III Endgame. However, before we dive into the reproposal, it is important to take a step back and look at how we got...more
On July 31, the U.S. House Committee on Financial Services wrote to the Chair of the Fed, Jerome Powell, urging him to withdraw and re-propose the Basel III Endgame proposal. In its letter, the Committee argues that the Fed’s...more
On July 9 and 10, the Fed Chair Jerome Powell testified at the respective financial committees under the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. Lawmakers asked questions on various Fed initiatives, such as the...more
On September 18, 2023, the U.S. Basel III Endgame proposal was published in the Federal Register. The comment period ended on January 16, 2024, with the banking regulators (the Federal Reserve, the OCC, and the FDIC) having...more
On June 17, in a letter to Fed Chair, Jerome Powell, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) requested information regarding discussions of potentially cutting the Basel III capital requirements in half. Warren highlighted reports...more
On May 13, the Basel Committee released a press release which reiterated its expectation to implement all aspects of the Basel framework, such as the Basel III “Endgame” proposal, in “full, consistently and as soon as...more
On March 6, the House Financial Services Committee held its semi-annual hearing on the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Report, and heard testimony from the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell a day after the Republican...more
On March 5, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), along with all Republican members released a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, Acting Comptroller of the Currency...more
More than 1,800 industry players attended the 13th annual Global Fund Finance Symposium that wrapped up yesterday afternoon at the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach. There was a lot to talk about in terms of market evolution...more
On February 16, the Chair for the House Committee on Financial Services, Maxine Waters (D-CA), and 41 other House Democrats sent a letter to the FDIC, Fed, and OCC regarding the Basel III Endgame and the proposed rule which...more
On January 26, 2024, the US federal banking regulators announced proposed reporting changes to implement the Basel III Endgame requirements. This may come as a surprise to the many banking organizations and others, who only...more
On September 18, 2023, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly published and sought comments on a proposal to implement new, standardized capital...more
On January 16, 2024, the comment period closed for the US banking regulators’ Basel III Endgame proposal. Nearly 200 comment letters were submitted from the financial sector, commercial user, and the general public....more
On 12 December 2023, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published the first of two near-final policy statements on the implementation of revisions to the Basel 3 standards, known in the U.K. as Basel 3.1. This...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") has published its near-final policy statement (the "PS") setting out feedback to seven chapters of its consultation paper 16/22 (CP16/22) on implementation of the final elements of...more
This week, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”) Director Jonathan McKernan gave remarks to the ISDA Conference on Trading Book Capital on Basel III Implementation....more
On December 12, a member of the FDIC Board of Directors, Jonathan McKernan, expressed concerns about its Endgame proposal’s reliance on Basel Committee decisions. In his speech at a conference on trading book capital, he...more
On November 14, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing where regulators, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr, FDIC Chair Martin Gruenberg, NCUA Chair Todd Harper, and acting...more
This week, the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee held oversight hearings with leaders of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”), the National Credit...more
Last week, Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) Governor Michelle Bowman gave a speech entitled Financial Stability in Uncertain Times, focusing on the “financial stability risks and vulnerabilities” she is most focused on....more
On October 20, 2023, the US federal banking regulators announced that they were extending the period for public comment to January 16, 2024 for both the (i) Basel Endgame proposal to significantly revise the risk-based...more
The UK’s banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) has announced its intention to move the implementation date of the final Basel 3.1 policies by six months to 1 July 2025 and commensurately reduce the...more
The US federal banking regulators recently proposed extensive revisions to the regulatory capital requirements, referred to as the Basel Endgame. The July and August proposals – targeted at banks with $100 billion (or more)...more
As we covered previously, on July 27, 2023, the U.S. prudential bank regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (“FDIC”), the Federal Reserve Board (“FRB”) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”)...more