Highlights:
This guidance only applies to banking organizations that use the advanced approaches final rule to calculate their risk-based capital requirements. In general, the guidance:

• Focuses on three areas: (1) comprehensive supervisory review of capital adequacy, (2) compliance with regulatory capital requirements, and (3) the internal capital adequacy assessment process (ICAAP).
• Highlights the fundamental objectives of a sound ICAAP: (1) identifying and measuring material risks, (2) setting and assessing internal capital adequacy goals that relate directly to risk, and (3) ensuring the integrity of internal capital adequacy assessments. Capital must meet or exceed regulatory minimum requirements, regardless of ICAAP results.
• Supports the agencies' existing ability to intervene when necessary to prevent an individual bank's regulatory capital from falling below the level needed to support all material risks to which the bank is exposed.

Distribution:
FDIC-Supervised Banks (Commercial and
Savings)

Suggested Routing:
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Risk Officer

Related Topics:
Risk-Based Capital Rules
12 CFR Part 325
Basel II

Attachment:
Supervisory Guidance: Supervisory Review
Process of Capital Adequacy (Pillar 2) Related to
the Implementation of the Basel II Advanced
Capital Framework - PDF (PDF Help)

Contact:
Gloria Ikosi, Senior Quantitative Risk Analyst, at
gikosi@fdic.gov or (202) 898-3997

Ryan D. Sheller, Capital Markets Specialist, at
rsheller@fdic.gov or (202) 898-6614

Printable Format:
FIL-71-2008 - PDF (PDF Help)

Note:
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