supervisory stress tests

Federal Reserve Board Releases Results of Supervisory Bank Stress Tests

 

On June 22, 2017, the Federal Reserve Board released the results of its annual supervisory stress tests conducted on 34 bank holding companies. According to the results, the nation’s largest bank holding companies have strong capital levels and retain their ability to lend to households and businesses during a severe recession. The supervisory stress tests are carried out pursuant to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and is one component of the Federal Reserve’s analysis during the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), which is an annual exercise to evaluate the capital planning processes and capital adequacy of large bank holding companies. Report. Press Release.

Fed Announces Dates of Stress Test Releases

On February 12, the Fed announced that results from the latest supervisory stress tests conducted as part of Dodd-Frank will be released on March 5, and the related results from the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, will be released on March 11.  Results for both exercises will be released at 4:30 p.m.  Release.

 

Fed Announces Release Dates for Results of Supervisory Stress Tests and CCAR

On January 28, the Fed announced that results from the supervisory stress tests under the Dodd-Frank Act will be released on March 7, and the related results from the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) will be released on March 14.  The Dodd-Frank Act supervisory stress test results will include data such as capital ratios, revenue and loss estimates under a severely adverse scenario and assuming a common set of capital actions that is used in the analysis of all of the firms.  Fed Release.