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B-330929


April 15, 2019

The Honorable Michael Crapo
Chairman
The Honorable Sherrod Brown
Ranking Member
Committee  on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
United States Senate

The Honorable Maxine Waters
Chairwoman
The Honorable Patrick McHenry
Ranking Member
Committee  on Financial Services
House  of Representatives

Subject: Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; Federal
        Reserve System; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: Regulatory Capital Rule:
        Implementation and Transition of the Current Expected Credit Losses Methodology for
        Allowances and Related Adjustments to the Regulatory Capital Rule and Conforming
        Amendments  to Other Regulations

Pursuant to section 801 (a)(2)(A) of title 5, United States Code, this is our report on a major rule
promulgated by the Department of the Treasury, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency;
Federal Reserve System; and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (collectively, the
agencies) entitled Regulatory Capital Rule: Implementation and Transition of the Current
Expected Credit Losses Methodology for Allowances and Related Adjustments to the
Regulatory Capital Rule and Conforming Amendments to Other Regulations (RINs:
1557-AE32;  7100-AF04; 3064-AE74).  We received the rule on April 1, 2019. It was published
in the Federal Register as a final rule on February 14, 2019. 84 Fed. Reg. 4222. The final rule
is effective on July 1, 2019. 84 Fed. Reg. 11,879.1

The final rule addresses changes to credit loss accounting under U.S. generally accepted
accounting principles, including banking organizations' implementation of the current expected
credit losses methodology (CECL). The final rule provides banking organizations the option to
phase in over a 3-year period the day-one adverse effects on regulatory capital that may result
from the adoption of the new accounting standard. In addition, the final rule revises the
agencies' regulatory capital rule, stress testing rules, and regulatory disclosure requirements to
reflect CECL, and makes conforming amendments  to other regulations that reference credit loss
allowances.


1 The final rule originally had an effective date of April 1, 2019. That date was delayed to July 1, 2019, and the delay
was published in the Federal Register at the stated citation.

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