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Do Investors Value The Required Stress Tests Of Financial Holding Companies?, Brendan A. Colligan
Do Investors Value The Required Stress Tests Of Financial Holding Companies?, Brendan A. Colligan
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper explores the value of disclosing stress test results to investors and market participants within the US financial system. Recently the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) expanded its required internal stress testing program, often referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (“DFAST”), to include bank holding companies (“BHCs”) with more than $10 billion in total assets. These BHCs were required to publicly disclose their results for the first time in June of 2015. Large BHCs are subject to another level of stress testing implemented by the Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (“CCAR”). Large BHCs are defined as having more than $50 …