US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Issues Updated Guidance Regarding Risk Assessment System

The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued updated guidance regarding its risk assessment system. Specifically, the updated guidance (i) clarifies the relationship between the RAS and CAMELS; (ii) revises the definition of banking risk in order to apply across all risk categories, and broadens the concept of risk to include potential impacts from losses, reduced earning, and market value of equity; (iii) expands the “quality of risk management” assessment to include a new category of “insufficient” between satisfactory and weak in order to better categorize and communicate concerns; and (iv) expands the assessment of strategic and reputation risks to include both quantity of risk and quality of risk management.

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