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FDIC, OCC seek formal elimination of reputational risk assessments

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The notice of proposed rulemaking that would formally end reputational risk assessments comes months after the agencies removed the practice from guidance manuals and internal checklists.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would formally end the use of “reputational risk” as a basis for supervisory scrutiny, enforcement actions, or guidance documents.

The proposed rule would ban banking regulators