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Federal Reserve Board releases hypothetical scenarios for second round of bank stress tests

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September 17, 2020 11:01
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Federal Reserve Board releases hypothetical scenarios for second round of bank stress tests

The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday released its hypothetical scenarios for a second round of bank stress tests. Earlier this year, the Board’s first round of stress tests found that large banks were well capitalized under a range of hypothetical events. An additional round of stress tests is being performed due to the continued uncertainty from the COVID event.

Large banks will be tested against two scenarios featuring severe recessions to assess their resiliency under a range of outcomes. The Board will release firm-specific results from banks’ performance under both scenarios by the end of this year.

The Board’s stress tests help ensure that large banks are able to lend to households and businesses even in a severe recession. The exercise evaluates the resilience of large banks by estimating their loan losses and capital levels—which provide a cushion against losses—under hypothetical recession scenarios over nine quarters into the future.

“The Fed’s stress tests earlier this year showed the strength of large banks under many different scenarios,” Vice Chair Randal K. Quarles said. “Although the economy has improved materially over the last quarter, uncertainty over the course of the next few quarters remains unusually high, and these two additional tests will provide more information on the resiliency of large banks.”

The two hypothetical recessions in the scenarios feature severe global downturns with substantial stress in financial markets. The first scenario—the “severely adverse”—features the unemployment rate peaking at 12.5 percent at the end of 2021 and then declining to about 7.5 percent by the end of the scenario. Gross domestic product declines about 3 percent from the third quarter of 2020 through the fourth quarter of 2021. The scenario also features a sharp slowdown abroad.

The second scenario—the “alternative severe”—features an unemployment rate that peaks at 11 percent by the end of 2020 but stays elevated and only declines to 9 percent by the end of the scenario. Gross domestic product declines about 2.5 percent from the third to the fourth quarter of 2020. The chart below shows the path of the unemployment rate for each scenario.

The two scenarios also include a global market shock component that will be applied to banks with large trading operations. Those banks, as well as certain banks with substantial processing operations, will also be required to incorporate the default of their largest counterparty. A table below shows the components that apply to each firm.

The scenarios are not forecasts and are significantly more severe than most current baseline projections for the path of the U.S. economy under the stress testing period. They are designed to assess the strength of large banks during hypothetical recessions, which is especially appropriate in a period of uncertainty. Each scenario includes 28 variables covering domestic and international economic activity.

In June, the Board released the results of its annual stress tests and additional analyses, which found that all large banks were sufficiently capitalized. Nonetheless, in light of the heightened economic uncertainty, the Board required banks to take several actions to preserve their capital levels in the third quarter of this year. The Board will announce by the end of September whether those measures to preserve capital will be extended into the fourth quarter.

BankSubject to global market shockSubject to counterparty default
Ally Financial Inc.  
American Express Company  
Bank of America CorporationXX
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation X
Barclays US LLCXX
BMO Financial Corp.  
BNP Paribas USA, Inc.  
Capital One Financial Corporation  
Citigroup Inc.XX
Citizens Financial Group, Inc.  
Credit Suisse Holdings (USA), Inc.XX
DB USA CorporationXX
Discover Financial Services  
DWS USA Corporation  
Fifth Third Bancorp  
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.XX
HSBC North America Holdings Inc.XX
Huntington Bancshares Incorporated  
JPMorgan Chase & Co.XX
KeyCorp  
M&T Bank Corporation  
Morgan StanleyXX
MUFG Americas Holdings Corporation  
Northern Trust Corporation  
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc.  
RBC US Group Holdings LLC  
Regions Financial Corporation  
Santander Holdings USA, Inc.  
State Street Corporation X
TD Group US Holdings LLC  
Truist Financial Corporation  
UBS Americas Holding LLCXX
U.S. Bancorp  
Wells Fargo & CompanyXX

 

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