Highlights:
- "Industry Trends Highlight Importance of Effective Interest-Rate Risk
Management" looks at how changes in the banking industry's asset mix and
funding profile have led to increased interest-rate risk (IRR) exposure. The
article highlights supervisory expectations for IRR management and suggests
strategies banks can use to assess and mitigate this exposure.
- "Lending Trends: Results from the FDIC's Credit and Consumer
Products/Services Survey" shares recent survey results relating to loan
growth, credit underwriting, factors influencing banks' ability and
willingness to lend, and use of loan workouts.
- "The New Basel III Definition of Capital: Understanding the Deductions for
Investments in Unconsolidated Financial Institutions" discusses how the new
regulatory capital rules require a deduction from capital, under certain
circumstances, for a portion of a bank's investments in the capital of
unconsolidated financial institutions. This article provides examples of how
to calculate the deduction.
- Suggestions for article topics and requests for permission to reprint
articles should be e-mailed to supervisoryjournal@fdic.gov.
Requests for print copies should be e-mailed to publicinfo@fdic.gov.
Distribution:
FDIC-Supervised
Institutions
Suggested
Routing:
Chief Executive
Officer
Compliance Officer
Related
Topics:
Interest-Rate
Risk Management
Credit and Consumer Products/Services Survey
Basel III
Attachments:
None
Contact:
Kim E. Lowry,
Managing Editor
(klowry@fdic.gov or 202-898-6635)
Note:
FDIC Financial
Institution Letters (FILs) are available on the FDIC's Web site at http://www.fdic.gov/news/news/financial/2013/index.html.
To receive FILs electronically, visit http://www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.
Paper copies may be obtained through the FDIC's Public Information Center, 3501
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