OCC Releases Dodd-Frank Stress Test Scenarios for 2016

WASHINGTON—The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released economic and financial market scenarios that will be used in the upcoming stress tests for covered institutions with more than $10 billion in assets. The supervisory scenarios include baseline, adverse, and severely adverse scenarios, as described in the OCC's final rules that implement stress test requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010.

Section 165(i)(2) of the Dodd-Frank Act requires certain financial companies, including national banks and federal savings associations with total consolidated assets of more than $10 billion, to conduct annual stress tests. On December 3, 2014, the OCC published its amended annual stress test rule. The rule states that the OCC will provide scenarios to covered institutions by February 15 of each year. Covered institutions are required to use the scenarios to conduct annual stress tests. The 2016 scenario information can be found on the OCC DFAST Website. The final policy statement on the development and distribution of the scenarios was issued on October 28, 2013, in the Federal Register.

Related Links

• 2016 Dodd-Frank Act Annual Stress Test Scenario Information
• Policy Statement on the Principles for Development and Distribution of Annual Stress Test Scenarios