On January 30, 2017, the US Federal Reserve Board adopted a final rule amending the capital plan and stress test rules effective for the 2017 cycle. The final rule removes large and noncomplex firms, specifically those with total consolidated assets of at least $50 billion but less than $250 billion, nonbank assets of less than $75 billion, and that are not deemed, pursuant to the Federal Reserve's Regulation Q, to be US global systemically important banks, from the qualitative assessment of the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, thereby significantly reducing the burden on such firms. Accordingly, the qualitative review in CCAR is now focused on the 13 largest, most complex financial institutions.
The text of the final rule is available at: https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/bcreg20170130a1.pdf.
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