This commentary reviews the Federal Reserve's annual stress test with a primary focus on commercial real estate (CRE). Key highlights include: •Positively, all 23 banks in this year's iteration cleared the Federal Reserve stress tests and would all be able to continue to lend supporting the economy. •This year's stress test included heightened stress scenarios, especially around CRE. Next to credit cards, CRE had the highest loss levels of any asset class. •Preliminary stress capital buffers (S...
This commentary reviews the U.S. Residential Mortgage Market and its associated risks for U.S. Banks. Housing prices in the U.S. have appreciated sharply in recent years aided by historically low borrowing costs prevalent during the early stages of the pandemic. Key highlights include: • Strong U.S. home price appreciation was fueled by high demand during the pandemic from low-interest rates and more workplace flexibility that allowed employees to work from home. • The U.S. mortgage market is d...
This commentary reviews CCAR and Commercial Real Estate. Key highlights include: • All 34 banks in this year's iteration cleared the Federal Reserve stress tests. • This year's stress test included heightened stress scenarios, especially around CRE. Next to credit cards, CRE had the highest loss levels of any asset class. • Preliminary stress capital buffers (SCB) have also been released with most banks remaining at 2.50%. “While the most recent round of Federal Reserve stress testing, sho...
This commentary reviews the 2Q22 results for U.S. banks. Key highlights include: • While the operating environment remains complicated and uncertain, U.S. banks performed well in 2Q22. • The quarter was characterized by strong, broad-based loan growth, higher NII and NIM expansion, mixed fee income trends and still pristine asset quality. • Looking ahead, we do not expect a significant amount of changes to our U.S. bank ratings in the near term, given that nearly 90% of DBRS Morningstar-rat...
This commentary reviews the impact of Russia’s economic sanctions on U.S. payment networks. Key highlights include: • Visa, American Express and MasterCard have all announced the immediate suspension of their operations in Russia essentially unplugging cross-border card payments for Russian bankcards and inbound payments from international cardholders. • In the absence of a material spillover effect to the global economy, the revenue impact to the U.S. payment networks from the lost card tran...
This commentary analyzes the results of the latest round of the Federal Reserve’s Dodd-Frank Act stress testing. The stress testing evaluates the banks' resilience to a severe hypothetical downturn. Key highlights include: -- All 23 banks cleared the stress tests and many have announced plans for capital distributions with more expected to be announced with second-quarter earnings. -- Of the 14 publicly-traded U.S. banking companies participating, ten have announced plans to increase their co...
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ISSUER COMMENT 19 April 2017 Contacts Rita Sahu 212-553-1648 VP-Sr Credit Officer [email protected] Allen H. Tischler 212-553-4541 Senior Vice President [email protected] Joseph Pucella 212-553-7455 VP-Sr Credit Officer [email protected] Conrad Kirejczyk 212-553-4523 Associate Analyst [email protected] Sean Jones
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