FDIC issues 2020 stress testing scenarios

Agency Rule-Making & Guidance Federal Reserve FDIC Stress Test Supervision Dodd-Frank OCC

On February 14, the FDIC released economic scenarios—developed in coordination with the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) and the OCC—for certain supervised financial institutions with consolidated assets of more than $250 billion. The Dodd-Frank Act requires financial companies to run stress tests using the scenarios. According to the FDIC, the scenarios cover a baseline scenario that is “in line with a survey of private sector economic forecasters” and a severely adverse scenario “designed to assess the strength and resilience of financial institutions.”

As previously reported by InfoBytes, the OCC and the Fed both released their stress testing scenarios on February 6.