Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Thursday said he favors decoupling the U.S. central bank's stress testing framework from binding capital requirements to "maximize the informative value of the ...

Setting bank capital levels should be separated from stress test results and customized more closely to a lender’s condition, according to Fed Governor Michael Barr, who is looking for ways to ...

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr warned that subjecting the stress testing models to the notice and comment process ...

All the major banks passed the Federal Reserve‘s annual “stress tests” of the financial system, the central bank said Friday, but the test conducted by the central bank was notably less vigorous than ...

Citigroup Inc. C has passed the Federal Reserve’s 2025 stress test. Post-clearing the stress test, C now has the flexibility to return excess capital to shareholders via dividends and share ...

As an alternative, Barr proposed decoupling stress tests from binding regulatory capital requirements while increasing those requirements commensurately. This approach would allow the Fed to preserve ...

Wells Fargo & Co.’s board of directors is expected to raise the bank’s quarterly dividend by 5 cents to 45 cents in the next step of emerging from a near 7½-year Federal Reserve-imposed total asset ...

The Scap helped stabilise markets and a successor regime, the Dodd-Frank Act stress test (DFAST), similarly began to provide valuable information for investors and analysts. However, 2019 reforms ...

The request comes a year after Goldman Sachs successfully petitioned the central bank to reduce its stress capital buffer.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, during a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in Washington, D.C. Warren told the Fed that changes to the stress ...