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 ...

The Federal Reserve may overhaul its annual stress tests for large U.S. banks to reduce the volatility of the results, but also make them more transparent. While the Fed did not offer specifics beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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.

All but four of 19 major U.S. banks got a green light Tuesday to boost dividends and buy back shares after the Federal Reserve declared them strong enough to survive another serious recession. J.P.

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 ...