Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Randal K. Quarles questioned the value of developing a U.S. central bank digital currency, considering that (i) the U.S. dollar payment system operates very well, (ii) the potential benefits of a Federal Reserve CBDC are ambiguous and (iii) the development of a CBDC may pose substantial risks.
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Technical corrections to an OCC, Federal Reserve Board and FDIC standardized approach to calculating the exposure amount of derivative contracts under the "regulatory capital rule'" were published in the Federal Register.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York analyzed the potential impact of a cyberattack transmitted through a payment system against a (i) single large bank, (ii) group of smaller banks and (iii) common service provider.
The OCC, the Federal Reserve Board and the FDIC will implement a standardized approach to calculating the exposure amount of derivative contracts under the "regulatory capital rule."
The Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Reserve Board and FDIC proposal allowing "advanced-approaches" banking organizations ( i.e. , those with $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets, or $10 billion or more in on-balance sheet foreign exposure) to use an alternative approach for calculating derivative exposures under regulatory capital rules was published in the Federal Register. Comments must be received before February 15, 2019. As previously covered , the proposed approach - the standardized approach for counterparty credit risk ("SA-CCR") - would replace the current exposure