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January 12, 2012

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Financial Institution Regulators Issue FAQs on Interest Rate Risk Management
The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council today released answers to Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs) about the January 2010 advisory on Interest Rate Risk
Management. These FAQs are being adopted by the Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System, the National Credit Union Administration, and the State Liaison Committee
(collectively, the “financial regulators”).
The FAQs respond to common questions on several areas that are critical to sound interest
rate risk management, including appropriate measurement and reporting, robust and
meaningful stress testing, assumption development reflecting the institution’s experience,
and comprehensive model validation.
The financial regulators expect that all supervised institutions will manage interest rate risk
exposures using processes and systems commensurate with their complexity, business
models, risk profiles, scope of operations, and earnings and capital levels. Each financial
institution’s management team is responsible for ensuring that the institution’s interest rate
risk management processes and measurement systems are capable of capturing, reporting,
and controlling risks being taken. The FAQs provide examples of risk management
expectations for financial institutions of various interest rate risk profiles, including how to
adjust processes as risks change.
The FAQs supplement the advisory and should be reviewed in conjunction with that
document and other referenced guidance.
Attachment: Interagency Advisory on Interest Rate Risk Management Frequently Asked
Questions
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The FFIEC was established in March 1979 to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and
report forms and to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions. The Council
has six voting members: a Governor of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System designated by the Chairman of the Board, the Chairman of the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation, the Chairman of the Board of the National Credit Union
Administration, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Director of the Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau, and the Chairman of the State Liaison Committee. The Council's activities
are supported by interagency task forces and by an advisory State Liaison Committee,
comprised of five representatives of state agencies that supervise financial institutions.
Media Contacts:

Federal Reserve

Barbara Hagenbaugh

(202) 452-2955

FDIC

Greg Hernandez

(202) 898-6984

NCUA

Kenzie Snowden

(703) 518-6334

OCC

Dean DeBuck

(202) 874-5770

SLC

Catherine Woody

(202) 728-5733

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