Long Term Fixes and Status Report

  Action to be Completed Status
Relax “Mark-to-Market” accounting rules by applying existing accounting rules that apply to loans held in portfolio to asset-backed securities and other debt securities for which the institution has the intent and ability to hold Not done
Create a new category for classifying loans currently viewed as substandard but whose borrowers are still making payments, and ease current bank classifications for Non-Performing Assets (NPA) Not done
Allow banks to hold a “small basket” of character loans from borrowers who have a proven history with the bank, and exempt these loans from strict underwriting standards Not done
Adopt more reasonable, flexible, and transparent field-evaluation criteria for bank examiners, and strengthen the appeals process and ombudsman determinations Not done
Employ a more equitable assessment base for the FDIC’s Deposit Insurance Fund, namely a formula that uses assets minus tangible equity Not done
Seek a funding alternative to the one-time 20 basis point special FDIC assessment
Done
Adopt a more flexible FDIC approach to broker deposit waiver requests from banks that have unexpectedly been classified as “adequately capitalized”
Not done
Expedite the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) review process for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending and consider shortening the mandatory “quiet periods” of P2P firms seeking SEC registration
Not done
Enact legislation to expand the protections in the Credit CARD Act to the cards used by small-business owners
Not done
Reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research program as it currently exists and provide an additional $2.3 billion for the program Not done
Raise the current cap on small-business lending at credit unions Not done