The Federal Reserve’s Alternative Reference Rates Committee on Thursday released recommendations for language to enable contracts linked to the beleaguered Libor rate to work even if the benchmark disappears.

The findings of a new survey suggest that banks risk becoming irrelevant unless they match the speedier processes that are a key selling point for online lenders.

If the United Kingdom leaves the EU without a deal, certain contracts held by U.S. entities and relocated outside the U.K. will not face new margin requirements.

U.S. regulators are poised to scrap their proposal for revising Volcker Rule restrictions on banks' trading in favor of a newer version as they respond to a misstep that drew fire from Wall Street lobbyists, according to people familiar with the effort.

Despite a generally positive picture in the Shared National Credit report, regulators warned that underperforming loans in the portfolio remain elevated.

While the London interbank offered rate won't go dark until 2021, the commercial real estate finance industry should start preparing for the transition now, says the Mortgage Bankers Association.

Slower growth to interest rates and home prices will boost housing affordability in 2019, according to Fannie Mae.

Some in the industry worry the Fed may balk at allowing OCC charter recipients into the payments system, but Otting downplayed those concerns.

An effort to increase awareness of the transition to a new benchmark rate, and nudge banks to start preparing, is expected to intensify in 2019.

They differ slightly from those released earlier by the Fed-convened ARRC, including language making it easier to ditch a SOFR-derived benchmark in favor of a new benchmark that has yet to be developed.