iOn October 30, as expected, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) each proposed a rule to strengthen the liquidity risk management of large banks and savings associations. The OCC’s and FDIC’s proposed liquidity rules are substantively the same as the proposal approved by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System on October 24. That proposal, as reported in the Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest edition of October 25, 2013,
was developed collaboratively by the three agencies, is applicable to banking organizations with $250 billion or more in total consolidated assets; banking organizations with $10 billion or more in on-balance sheet foreign exposure; systemically important, non-bank financial institutions that do not have substantial insurance subsidiaries or substantial insurance operations; and bank and savings association subsidiaries thereof that have total consolidated assets of $10 billion or more (covered institutions). The proposed rule does not apply to community banks.
