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July 11, 2022

First Attempt by U.S. Regulators to Build a Climate Stress Test for Banks

Trailing their European counterparts on climate-related issues, U.S. banking regulators are playing catch-up, urged by the new administration to do so. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell suggested in a July Senate Banking Hearing that climate stress testing could be on the table. On September 24, 2021, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRB-NY) released a staff report detailing a climate-…