A bank holding company agreed to pay a fine of approximately $110 million to settle charges of failing to supervise foreign exchange traders' communications and activities.
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The Comptroller of the Currency, the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation proposed an alternative approach for calculating derivative exposures under regulatory capital rules.
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 CFTC simultaneously filed and settled charges against two banking institutions for "executing fictitious and noncompetitive block trades in Russian Ruble/U.S. Dollar futures contracts, which were cleared through the Chicago Mercantile Exchange."
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