The United States Federal Reserve is considering the inclusion of this year's Bitcoin market collapse as one of the "Salient risks" to be taken into account for its supervisory stress tests.
The prospective amendment was revealed as part of a policy statement published on the official federal government daily journal, The Federal Register, on Feb. 28.
The Fed's annual supervisory stress tests provide the framework for covered companies to conduct their internal stress tests.
These have been mandatory pursuant to the landmark Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, which was introduced as a direct response to the 2008 financial crash.
For the tests, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System establishes three scenarios - "Baseline, adverse, and severely adverse" - and projects a "Firm's balance sheet, risk-weighted assets, net income, and resulting post-stress capital levels and regulatory capital ratios" according to each one.
"Recommended that the Board consider extraordinary shocks, such as a war with North Korea, the collapse of the Bitcoin market, or major losses caused by trader misconduct, in its scenarios."
Any of these, and other proposed amendments, should they be accepted, are to come into effect as part of the Board's stress test policy by April 1, 2019.
"Together, the Dodd-Frank Act supervisory stress tests are intended to provide company management and boards of directors, the public, and supervisors with forward-looking information to help gauge the potential effect of stressful conditions on the ability of these large banking organizations to absorb losses, while meeting obligations to creditors and other counterparties and continuing to lend."
"Decided to undertake a review of its framework for assessing vulnerabilities to ensure that we are at the cutting edge of financial stability vulnerability assessment."
US Fed Considers Including BTC Market Crash as 'Salient Risk' for Stress Tests
Published on Mar 1, 2019
by Cointele | Published on Coinage
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