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B-331580


November 18, 2019

The Honorable Mike 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: Changes to Applicability
        Thresholds for Regulatory Capital and Liquidity Requirements

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
(OCC); Federal Reserve System (Board), Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
(collectively, the agencies) entitled Changes to Applicability Thresholds for Regulatory Capital
and Liquidity Requirements (RINs: 1557-AE63, 7100-AF21, 3064-AE96). We received the rule
on November 1, 2019. It was published in the Federal Register as a final rule on November 1,
2019. 84 Fed. Reg. 59230. The effective date of the rule is December 31, 2019.

The final rule revises the criteria for determining the applicability of regulatory capital and
liquidity requirements for large U.S. banking organizations and the U.S. intermediate holding
companies of certain foreign banking organizations. The final rule establishes four risk-based
categories for determining the applicability of requirements under the agencies' regulatory
capital rule and liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) rule. Under the final rule, according to the
agencies, such requirements increase in stringency based on measures of size, cross-
jurisdictional activity, weighted short-term wholesale funding, nonbank assets, and off-balance
sheet exposure. The agencies state that the final rule applies tailored regulatory capital and
liquidity requirements to depository institutions holding companies and U.S. intermediate holding
companies with $100 billion or more in total consolidated assets as well as to certain depository
institutions. Separately, the Board is adopting a final rule that, according to it, revises the
criteria for determining the applicability of enhanced prudential standards for large domestic and
foreign banking organizations using a risk-based category framework that is consistent with the
framework described in this final rule, and makes additional modifications to the Board's
company-run stress test and supervisory stress test rules. In addition, the Board and the FDIC
are separately adopting a final rule that, according to them, amends the resolution planning

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