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On May 11, 2016, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency released a mid-cycle status report on key actions that it has taken to date pursuant to its Committee on Bank Supervision's annual operating plan...
On May 11, 2016, the US Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency released a mid-cycle status report on key actions that it
has taken to date pursuant to its Committee on Bank
Supervision's annual operating plan for the fiscal year that
commenced on October 1, 2015. The plan sets forth the agency's
broad supervision priorities and objectives and is used to develop
individual bank supervisory strategies and make related resource
allocation decisions. Key actions completed in the first half of
fiscal year 2016 include issuing various supervisory
communications, including 557 reports of examination, conducting
workshops, issuing guidance and reports surveying best practices
and ongoing outreach meetings and presentations to industry
members. The OCC's supervisory priorities for the duration of
the 2016 fiscal year include compliance, operational resiliency,
credit risk management, stress testing, strategic planning and
execution, corporate governance and interest rate risk.
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