ISDA and SIFMA Submit Addendum to Proposed FFIEC Reporting Revisions

On April 23, ISDA and the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) submitted an addendum to the joint response to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on the proposed reporting revisions of the call report, FFIEC 101 and FFIEC 102, which are designed to reflect the implementation of the Basel III endgame proposal.

The addendum contains additional findings in the FFIEC 102 report, including end-of-week Fundamental Review of the Trading Book standardized approach average calculations and reported market risk risk-weighted assets in sub-parts D and E.

Documents (1) for ISDA and SIFMA Submit Addendum to Proposed FFIEC Reporting Revisions

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