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Shifting Sands in Supervision: What Are CAMELS Ratings, and How Are They Changing?

Regulators examine banks’ financial health and assign them ratings. A key framework for bank ratings, known as CAMELS, assesses banks on six metrics: Banks are rated on each component from 1 (“strong”) to 5 (“critically deficient”), then the bank is assigned an overall composite rating.[1] The Problem: In theory, CAMELS ratings should reflect an accurate …

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Anatomy of a Spoofed Bank Impersonation Scam

Bank impersonation scams inflict billions of dollars in losses on consumers annually, often exploiting telecom vulnerabilities to display spoofed caller ID information that tricks targets into trusting fraudulent calls. These imposter calls and texts are surging—up 124 percent from 2024 to 2025, according to our recent bank impersonation scam survey. Curbing this trend requires holding …

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You Say You Want a Revolution: The Developing Payments Landscape

This note explores developments in payment systems, and in particular efforts to use distributed ledger technology to make payments more efficient and speedy. Three strong incentives motivate firms to process payments. The first is the ability to generate fee income by playing a role in moving money from one place to another. The second, for …

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Anatomy of a Spoofed Bank Impersonation Scam
You Say You Want a Revolution: The Developing Payments Landscape

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October 17, 2026 BPInsights: October 17, 2026

Fed’s Bowman Takes Stock of Post-SVB Supervision In a speech on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle Bowman highlighted recent supervision restructuring efforts and takeaways from the independent review of Silicon Valley Bank’s failure.  Five Key Things 1. President Calls Fed’s Cook to White House Hearing President Donald Trump has summoned Federal Reserve …

October 15, 2026 Confidential Supervisory Information: What to Know

Confidential supervisory information, or CSI, generally refers to nonpublic information created or obtained through the bank supervision process. It can include examination reports, supervisory correspondence, supervisory ratings such as CAMELS ratings, Matters Requiring Attention and information about enforcement activities. The federal banking agencies consider CSI to be their property and take the view that sharing …

October 14, 2026 BPI Statement on OCC Access to Banking Services Report

Washington, D.C. – BPI issued the following statement regarding an OCC report that was released today on access to banking services. “The banking industry supports fair access to banking services and has been working to ensure that government regulations and policies enable banks to serve law-abiding customers. We support efforts to establish clear and consistent standards …

October 13, 2026 BPI and CBA Comment on OCC and FDIC’s Community Reinvestment Act Proposal

The Consumer Bankers Association[1] and the Bank Policy Institute[2] (together, the “Associations”) appreciate the opportunity to provide these comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “Agencies”) in response to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (the “Proposal”) to revise the Agencies’ Community Reinvestment Act regulations.[3] The …

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The research department conducts long- and short-term analysis on issues primarily related to bank regulation and supervision with the objective of encouraging welfare-enhancing regulatory change. Our economists conduct academic-level research intended for presentation at conferences and publication in peer-reviewed journals.

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