In a recent opinion article published in the International Banker, Greg Baer, President and CEO of the Bank Policy Institute, criticizes the examination practices of US regulators for focusing on risks that he believes are immaterial to banking sector resilience.
According to a recent leak out of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), 11 out of 22 large banks under the regulator's supervision were rated as having "insufficient" or "weak" operational risk management. These alleged deficiencies contributed to about one-third of those banks receiving low overall management ratings as a part of the broader "CAMELS" rating system. The US Federal Reserve has expressed similar concerns, arguing in its May 2024 Supervision and Regulation Report that two-thirds of large banks had management deficiencies.
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