The banking failures of early 2023—precipitated by the sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB)—served as a rude awakening for the sector, giving financial institutions extraordinary cause for ...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) teamed up to question the Federal Reserve’s proposal to “upend” bank stress testing framework, in a Monday letter in which they ...

This course provides a rigorous quantitative framework for conducting stress tests on a central bank's balance sheet and profit and loss statements. It explains how to model a central bank's balance ...

The Federal Reserve put forth a proposal Friday to publish the models and methodologies the central bank uses every year to stress test the nation's largest banks in an effort to increase transparency ...

The Federal Reserve is considering significant changes to its annual bank stress tests to improve transparency and reduce the volatility of resulting capital buffer requirements, citing the "evolving ...

The Federal Reserve Board requested comment on proposals to enhance the transparency and accountability of its annual stress test. The agency is looking for comments on the models it uses for the test ...

The stress tests on European banks do not offer the reassurance the EU intends. Banks will still find capital raising an onerous business On Friday, European bank regulators tried to reassure the ...

Central banks pride themselves on being data-driven and consensus-based. Surprisingly, though, there is little consensus among policymakers on a crucial issue: how much capital should these ...