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Built For One Era, Operating Across Four Generations
Federal banking agencies have issued revised model risk management guidance in SR 26-2, introducing a more explicitly risk-based approach to model governance, validation, and monitoring. While primarily targeting organizations with over $30 billion in assets, the principles-based framework has broader implications for regional and community banks navigating evolving regulatory expectations.
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Ankura Consulting Group LLC
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Implementing The GENIUS Act: The FDIC Proposes Comprehensive Rulemaking Governing Payment Stablecoins Issuance
On April 7, 2026, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the Proposal) to implement key provisions of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act) applicable to FDIC-supervised institutions, including permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) and insured depository institutions (IDIs) engaged in related custodial or safekeeping services
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Arnold & Porter
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Basel III Endgame Evolution: Strategic Implications For Investment Banking, Corporate Treasury And Global Markets
On March 19, 2026, the federal banking agencies issued a package of proposed changes to the regulatory capital requirements for banking institutions of all sizes, from the largest GSIBs and super-regional banks to community banks. This package of proposals (the “Proposed Rules”) is a second full attempt at implementing the 2017 “Basel III Endgame” international framework—following the agencies’ initial package of proposals in July 2023 (the “2023 NPR”)—to better reflect credit, trading and operational risk in the calculation of regulatory capital ratios.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
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Basel III Endgame Evolution: Strategic Implications For Retail Banking
On March 19, 2026, the federal banking agencies issued a package of proposed changes to the regulatory capital requirements for banking institutions of all sizes, from the largest GSIBs and super-regional banks to community banks. This package of proposals (the “Proposed Rules”) is a second full attempt at implementing the 2017 “Basel III Endgame” international framework—following the agencies’ initial package of proposals in July 2023 (the “2023 NPR”)—to better reflect credit, trading and operational risk in the calculation of regulatory capital ratios.
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Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
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The U.S. Basel III Endgame Reproposal: Analysis Of The Securitization Framework
The Federal Reserve, OCC, and FDIC have issued concurrent notices of proposed rulemaking that would fundamentally transform the risk-based capital framework for U.S. banking organizations, introducing a new expanded risk-based approach and revising the standardized approach. This whitepaper examines the proposed securitization framework changes, including the replacement of current bifurcated methodologies with a single SEC-SA methodology, new operational criteria for synthetic securitizations, and modifica
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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
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