Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council
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| Formed | March 10, 1979 |
| Jurisdiction | United States of America |
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The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) is a formal U.S. government interagency body composed of five banking regulators that is "empowered to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions".[2] It also oversees real estate appraisal in the United States.[3] Its regulations are contained in title 12 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
FFIEC includes five banking regulators, these are the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA), the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
History
FFIEC was established on March 10, 1979, pursuant to title X of the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978 (FIRA).[2][4]
Housing and real estate
The FFIEC was given additional statutory responsibilities by section 340 of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1980 to facilitate public access to data that depository institutions must disclose under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 (HMDA) and the aggregation of annual HMDA data, by census tract, for each metropolitan statistical area (MSA). In accordance with HMDA, the FFIEC established an advisory State Liaison Committee composed of five representatives of state supervisory agencies.[3] The HMDA requires "most lenders to identify the race, sex, and income of loan applicants and borrowers",[3] so the FFIEC is able to deduce things like "the number of mortgages issued to black and Hispanic borrowers rose sharply", as it did in 1993.[5] In 2006, the State Liaison Committee was added to the Council as a voting member.[6]
The Appraisal Subcommittee (ASC) was established within the FFIEC pursuant to title XI of the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989 (FIRREA). The ASC oversees The Appraisal Foundation, whose work is accomplished by three independent boards—the Appraiser Qualifications Board (AQB), the Appraisal Standards Board (ASB), and the Appraisal Practices Board (APB), who collectively regulate real estate appraisal in the United States.
Cybersecurity
Then Comptroller of the Currency and FFIEC Chair Thomas J. Curry stated on May 8, 2014, that "helping to make banks less vulnerable and more resilient to cyber-attacks" has been one of his top priorities.[7][8] In June 2014 FFIEC launched a new webpage on cybersecurity and announced that it was initiating a pilot for 500 member institutions that will focus on how these institutions manage cybersecurity and how prepared they are to mitigate cyber risks.[9] This was a welcome development since the FFIEC had previously relaxed their own guidance regarding cybersecurity. In guidance released in 2005, the body created rigorous standards that were to be enacted by subject institutions by the end of 2006 regarding multi-factor authentication.[10] The guidance called for strict measures to protect financial transactions that would combine biometrics with strong passwords and device fingerprinting, among other measures, as means of strong authentication. The document mentions biometrics fourteen separate times. The following year, the FFIEC released supplementary guidance that relaxed the strong authentication requirements, allowing institutions to add a "second authentication method" for layered security (not 2 factor authentication) – the supplement mentions biometrics only once.[11] Many institutions discontinued more costly two factor and biometric security measures in favor of what the FFIEC guidance had come to refer to as layered security. By the deadline, fully one third of banking and financial institutions had not complied.[12] When further guidance was released in 2011, it mentioned "strong authentication" only one time.[13]
On June 30, 2015 the FFIEC released the FFIEC Cybersecurity Assessment Tool [14] to enable regulated financial institutions to assess their cybersecurity readiness. This tool may be used as a self-assessment. Regulators may also review the completed assessment during their examination.[15]
Consumer compliance
Consumer compliance in bank regulation is associated with the FFIEC’s Uniform Interagency Consumer Compliance Rating System (CC Rating System).[16] The FFIEC promotes compliance with federal consumer protection laws and regulations through each agency’s supervisory and outreach programs.
Members
The FFIEC has six voting representatives of member agencies.[17] As of August 2021, FFIEC members include:[18][19]
- Chair, Kyle S. Hauptman, Chairman / National Credit Union Administration[20]
- Vice Chair, Michael J. Hsu, Acting Comptroller / Office of the Comptroller of the Currency[21]
- Martin J. Gruenberg, Acting Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- David Uejio, Acting Director / Consumer Financial Protection Bureau[22]
- Randal K. Quarles, Vice Chairman for Supervision of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
- Thomas Fite, Director / Indiana Department of Financial Institutions (as chair of the FFIEC State Liaison Committee of the CSBS, ACSSS, and NASCUS)
See also
- Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reduction Act
- Systemically important financial institution (SIFI)
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Members of the FFIEC".
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About the FFIEC". FFIEC. Retrieved July 7, 2014.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."History of the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act". Retrieved July 7, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Vértesy, László (2007). "The Place and Theory of Banking Law - Or Arising of a New Branch of Law: Law of Financial Industries". Collega. 2-3. XI. Rochester, NY. SSRN 3198092.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bradsher, Keith (July 29, 1994). "Minorities Get More Mortgages". The New York Times.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council". Federal Register. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Curry, Thomas J. (May 8, 2014). "Remarks by Thomas J. Curry, Comptroller of the Currency, Before RMA's Governance, Compliance, and Operational Risk Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts" (PDF). Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. p. 7.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hoar, Sean B. (July 1, 2014). "Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council Launches Cybersecurity Webpage and Begins Cybersecurity Assessments". Privacy & Security Law Blog. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FFIEC Launches Cybersecurity Web Page, Promotes Awareness of Cybersecurity Activities". FFIEC Press Release. June 24, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FFIEC Press Release - October 12, 2005". www.ffiec.gov. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Supplement to Authentication in an Internet Banking Environment" (PDF). FFIEC.gov. 2006.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. January 1, 2007.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Supplement toAuthentication in an Internet Banking Environment" (PDF). FFIEC.gov. June 2011.
- ^ FFIEC. Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. Retrieved from https://www.ffiec.gov/cyberassessmenttool.htm
- ^ NCUA. FFIEC Releases Cybersecurity Assessment Tool. Press release. [Online] Available: https://www.ncua.gov/newsroom/Pages/NW20150630FFIEC.aspx
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."FFIEC Issues Uniform Interagency Consumer Compliance Rating System" (PDF). FFIEC Press Release. November 7, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Werthan, Jeffrey M. (May 11, 2014). "Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) Member Agencies and State of New York to Focus Attention on Cybersecurity". National Law Review.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Leadership of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council 1979-Present" (PDF). Retrieved January 31, 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Members of the FFIEC". Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Kyle S. Hauptman Designated NCUA Board Chairman". January 22, 2025. Retrieved February 21, 2025.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."OCC Leadership, Acting Conmptroller of the Currency". Retrieved August 10, 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."David Uejio, Acting Director". Archived from the original on June 24, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2021.
External links
- Official website
- 12 U.S.C. ch. 34 (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council)
- 12 U.S.C. ch. 34A (Appraisal Subcommittee)
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