The federal banking agencies issued a final rule today that permits banking organizations not subject to the advanced approaches capital rules to adopt simplifications to the calculation of their regulatory capital beginning January 1, 2020, rather than April 1, 2020 as was originally finalized in July 2019.
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Midsize Banks
Bipartisan Bills Providing Regulatory Relief to Community and Midsize Banks Emerge in Senate
By Randy Benjenk on
Posted in Capital, Legislation
Senators Jon Tester, D-Mont., and Jerry Moran, R-Kan., introduced a bill today (S. 1139) that would raise the threshold for a banking organization to be subject to Dodd-Frank Act Stress Tests (DFAST) to $50 billion in total consolidated assets from the current $10 billion threshold. The bill, titled the Main Street Regulatory Fairness Act, would…