Capital Briefs: Exam Council Offers Call-Report Overhaul

The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council on Monday proposed an overhaul of the first-quarter 1997 call report.

Under the proposal, the level of capital that banks hold against assets sold with recourse would be reduced. Currently, a bank must continue to hold capital against the full amount of an asset sold with recourse, even if its risk of loss is limited to 10%. Under the revamped call report, banks would be able to report these transactions as sales, meaning that reserves would reflect only estimated losses.

Banks also would be required to state the notional amount of credit derivatives they hold in their portfolios. The proposal is expected to be published in the Federal Register by the end of this week; the public will have 60 days to comment.

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