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Volume 2009 - Number 26

July 2, 2009

OTS Provides Updated Guidance on Appropriate Risk Weighting of Downgraded MBS and ABS

The Office of Thrift Supervision is telling institutions it regulates that they need to revise the risk-based capital classifications of MBS and other securities they hold if rating services downgrade the securities. The OTS and other banking agencies issued final risk-based capital standards back in November of 2001 that allow insured institutions to hold less capital...

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