House Members Call for CECL Study, Delay

As the Financial Stability Oversight Council met yesterday to discuss, among other topics, the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Current Expected Credit Loss model for loan loss accounting, 28 Republican House members urged a delay in CECL’s implementation date and a comprehensive study of its effects on the banking industry and access to credit. Read the letter.

Led by House Financial Services Committee member David Kustoff (R-Tenn.), the signers called on Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin as chairman of FSOC to “closely evaluate the negative consequences this standard will place on the banking industry, small businesses and the consumer.” They added that uncertainty about CECL’s effects on bank capital “may cause many community banks to reduce the number of financial products offered to consumers.”

ABA and four other trade groups yesterday called for a quantitative impact study of CECL and a delay in implementing the standard until the study can be conducted. Meanwhile, the Financial Accounting Standards Board announced that it will hold a public roundtable on CECL implementation issues in January. Read more about the roundtable

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