The industry called for modifications to the regulator's phase-in proposal on the new credit loss standard while acknowledging the broader changes it wants are up to the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
At a time when the industry is focused on serving members and assisting with the economic recovery, executives shouldn't be burdened by a costly new credit loss methodology.
Measures designed to give banks and credit unions more flexibility to help customers weather the coronavirus pandemic are set to expire Dec. 31 unless Congress renews them.
Two bills — one providing relief from a loan accounting standard and another extending forebearance measures — would collectively contain credit losses.
Russell Golden, who just stepped down from the Financial Accounting Standards Board, says he wants to be remembered for encouraging open discourse over new rules and efforts to simplify financial accounting.
Lawmakers should go further than their recent criticism of the Financial Accounting Standards Board's loan-loss rule and just hand over its duties to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Measures that delay the Current Expected Credit Losses standard and reduce a community bank capital ratio are temporary, but the industry now sees an opening to argue that they should be permanent.
Policymakers should abolish the new accounting standard because it could distract banks at exactly the moment they need to be focused on pulling their communities from the brink of recession.
