On October 4, 2016, the US Federal Reserve Board and the FDIC posted the public portions of the required "targeted submissions" for eight systemically important US banking institutions. This follows the joint determination of the agencies in April of this year that each of the 2015 resolution plans of Bank of America, Bank of New York Mellon, JPMorgan Chase, State Street and Wells Fargo was not credible or would not facilitate an orderly resolution under the US Bankruptcy Code, the standard established in the Dodd-Frank Act. Accordingly, the agencies issued joint letters to these firms detailing the deficiencies in their plans and requisite actions to be taken by the firms to address them. The firms were given until October 1, 2016 to remediate their deficiencies and file a targeted submission to the agencies detailing the remediation. A firm that has not remediated the identified deficiencies may be subject to more stringent prudential requirements.
The agencies jointly identified weaknesses in the 2015 resolution plans of Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup that the firms must address in their 2017 resolution plans. These firms were also required to file targeted submissions by the October 1st deadline.
The public portions of the targeted submissions are available at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/bankinforeg/resolution-plans.htm
and at: https://www.fdic.gov/regulations/reform/resplans/index.html.
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