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In “Calibrating Capital”, published in the current issue of The Clearing House’s Banking Perspectives, Dr. Thomas F. Huertas discusses the relationship between capital and resolution in reducing the probability of failure and the consequences to the financial system and broader economy given failure.  The article, which includes excellent graphical … Read More

Our visual memorandum here describes the key changes the Bipartisan Banking Act makes to the regulation of banking organizations. It is color coded for those who want to look only at the changes that affect their own organization.

The House is expected to pass the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and … Read More

On May 17, 2018, Lawrence Goodman, the President of the Center for Financial Stability, conducted an interview with Sir Paul Tucker.  Sir Paul is the former Deputy Governor for Financial Stability at the Bank of England and is currently the Chair of the Systemic Risk Council, a Harvard Fellow, and … Read More

Financial services regulatory reform in 2018 is complex and evolving. To assist in navigating this landscape, we have prepared a reference tool that provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, agencies and actors.  We will continue to track these issues and provide updated versions … Read More

Notwithstanding the venerable status of the attorney-client privilege and the important purposes it serves, the federal banking regulators and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have taken the position that they have the legal authority to override the privilege and compel supervised institutions to produce information protected by the privilege.  Seven … Read More

Davis Polk has submitted a comment letter on the Federal Reserve’s proposed amendments to its guidelines on internal appeals of material supervisory determinations (the Proposal).  While we understand, of course, that discretion is a necessary element of supervision, our concern is with discretion that is insufficiently accountable, involves legal … Read More

The Federal Reserve and the OCC have proposed a rule that would recalibrate the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (eSLR) requirements applicable to U.S. GSIBs and their insured depository institution (IDI) subsidiaries, and related requirements, by tailoring the eSLR levels to 50 percent of each firm’s GSIB surcharge.  The proposal would … Read More

The Stress Buffer Requirements (SBR) Proposal would fundamentally restructure how the Federal Reserve’s stress testing and capital planning framework is used to impose capital requirements for large banking organizations.  In general, the proposal would shift the quantitative capital requirements based on a firm’s pro forma stress losses, which currently are … Read More

Financial services regulatory reform in 2018 is complex and evolving. To assist in navigating this landscape, we have prepared a reference tool that provides context and summarizes current developments across a range of key regulatory areas, agencies and actors.  We will continue to track these issues and provide updated versions … Read More