IMF Calls for Enhanced Climate-Risk Analyses, Stress-Testing
Calling for implementation of the Basel Committee’s climate-related financial risk principles (see FSM Report CLIMATE14), the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department Director, Tobias Adrian, today pressed central banks to enhance their climate risk analyses and adapt stress-testing frameworks to better reflect climate-financial risk transmission and amplification channels.
Agencies Come Under Still More Workplace-Practice Scrutiny, Political Pressure
As we noted last week, House Republicans are now using ongoing assertions of FDIC workplace dysfunction to attack the OCC.
HFSC Subcomm Considers Sanctions Enforcement
Today’s HFSC National Security Subcommittee hearing focused primarily on critiques of US energy sanctions enforcement related to Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
House Select Committee Calls on Fed to Stress Test China Risk
The House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party today released a bipartisan report urging Congress to direct the Fed to stress-test U.S. banks for their ability to withstand Chinese market risk, produce classified reports on these assessments, and consider the financial market impact of potential sanctions on Chinese financial firms.
Basel Proposes Modest Fix to IRR Standards, Post-SVB Revisions Await
As anticipated, the Basel Committee today released a consultation revising global interest-rate risk (IRR), standards updating current banking-book standards (see FSM Report IRR7) to toughen the IRR-shock calibration.
McKernan Extends Capital Olive Branch
FDIC Director McKernan today offered an end-game compromise that might actually lead to final rules in 2024 that defer some of the proposal’s most problematic aspects.
House Advances Bipartisan Beneficial-Owner Reform
Presaging likely Senate action, the House today voted 420-1 to approve H.R. 5119, legislation from Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) revising the 2021 AML law (see FSM Report AML133).