Capital Adequacy
Bank-supervision terms for capital strength, risk-weighted assets, CAMELS ratings, undercapitalization, and supervisory performance reports.
Regulation terms for bank supervision, capital directives, resolution tools, risk-based capital, and supervisory review.
Bank Supervision, Capital, and Resolution Rules is the regulation landing page for bank supervision, prudential capital rules, deposit insurance, credit-union protection, reserve requirements, and bank-resolution frameworks. It keeps related terms in one branch so readers can move from a broad compliance question to the article that owns the regulatory evidence.
Use this page when a banking rule changes safety and soundness, depositor protection, capital requirements, liquidity controls, or supervisory intervention. Use the parent Banking Prudential and Deposit Rules page when you need the broader regulation map. For an individual decision, confirm the rule source, jurisdiction, covered party, effective date, filing or record, and compliance consequence before relying on the term.
Use the table below to choose the branch that matches the rule, regulator, duty, filing, exemption, control, or enforcement issue being reviewed.
| Branch | Use it for |
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| Capital Adequacy and Risk-Weighted Assets | Bank-supervision terms for capital strength, risk-weighted assets, CAMELS ratings, undercapitalization, and supervisory performance reports. |
| Supervisory Directives and Bank Resolution | Bank-regulation terms for supervisory review, capital directives, resolution tools, OCC oversight, and single-supervisory mechanisms. |
Deposit insurance can protect qualifying depositors, while capital rules aim to reduce the chance that the institution fails in the first place.
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Bank-supervision terms for capital strength, risk-weighted assets, CAMELS ratings, undercapitalization, and supervisory performance reports.
Bank-regulation terms for supervisory review, capital directives, resolution tools, OCC oversight, and single-supervisory mechanisms.