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The Federal Reserve may overhaul its annual stress tests for large U.S. banks to reduce the volatility of the results, but ...

The central bank, a day earlier, had said it aims to improve transparency and consider public comment on its stress-testing ...

Trade groups representing the country’s biggest banks sued the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, accusing it of using an opaque ...

That’s what the Fed has been doing with its capital stress tests, as banking groups argue in a lawsuit filed Tuesday. Banks say the Fed is violating the Administrative Procedure Act by dodging ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Monday it was considering major changes to its annual bank "stress tests" in light of recent ...

Major banks and business groups sued the Federal Reserve on Tuesday, alleging the U.S. central bank's annual "stress tests" of Wall Street firms violate the law.

To this day it’s said that mark-to-market (MTM) accounting rules are what caused existential troubles for banks and ...

"The framework of administrative law has changed significantly in recent years," the Fed stated. "The board analyzed the current stress test in view of the evolving legal landscape and determined to ...

the Fed said. Under the revised system, the models that determine hypothetical bank losses would be open to public comment, as would be the hypothetical stress scenarios used in each year's test.

"The Board will continue its exploratory analysis, which assesses additional risks to the banking system in ways that are separate from the stress test," the Fed said on Monday. "The analysis ...

The consortium alleges that the central bank is violating federal law by not allowing public input on its stress test process, a requirement that is legally mandated. Yahoo Finance Senior Fed ...