Regulators Reject 'Living Wills' of Five Huge U.S. Banks
April 13 2016 - 8:40AM
Dow Jones News
WASHINGTON—Regulators ordered five huge U.S. banks to make
significant revisions to their so-called living wills by Oct. 1 or
face potential regulatory sanctions, a stern warning that will fuel
criticism the firms are "too big to fail."
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Wells Fargo & Co., Bank of
America Corp., Bank of New York Mellon Corp., and State Street
Corp. were found by the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corp. to have plans for a possible bankruptcy that don't
meet the legal standard laid out in the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, which
requires that firms have credible plans to go through bankruptcy at
no cost to taxpayers.
They said those firms had until October to present plans
regulators find acceptable, or the agencies or regulators could
impose higher capital requirements, restrictions on growth or
activities, or other sanctions.
The regulators split in their assessments of Goldman Sachs Group
Inc. and Morgan Stanley. The FDIC said that Goldman Sachs's plan
didn't meet the legal standard, while the Fed didn't give that
negative assessment.
The two regulators took the opposite stance on Morgan Stanley.
The Fed "identified a deficiency" in Morgan Stanley's plan that it
said didn't meet the legal standard, but the FDIC didn't go that
far, the agencies said in a news release.
Citigroup Inc. was the only firm whose plan wasn't rejected by
both agencies, though the Fed and FDIC said the firm's plan had
"shortcomings that the firm must address" by July 2017.
Write to Ryan Tracy at ryan.tracy@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
April 13, 2016 08:25 ET (12:25 GMT)
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