U.S. bank regulators remove reputation risk references from 15 guidance documents

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Ashutosh Sureka

02.06.2026

U.S. bank regulators remove reputation risk references from 15 guidance documents — Regulators update bank guidance

U.S. banking regulators are revising supervisory guidance as they continue to strip reputation risk from oversight frameworks for banks. The latest move covers 15 interagency documents, including guidance on securitization, subprime lending, cyberattacks and operational resilience, and applies to community banks to the same extent as the original issuances.

Highlights

U.S. bank regulators reissued 15 interagency guidance documents with all references to reputation risk removed, affecting topics like loan participations, securitizations, and cyber risk.
The policy change follows the OCC's March 20, 2025 announcement to eliminate reputation risk from supervisory exams and aligns interagency guidance with this new approach.
A final rule published April 10, 2026 by the OCC and FDIC codified the removal of reputation risk from supervisory programs, signaling ongoing regulatory recalibration for U.S. banks.

Regulatory update across interagency guidance

As reported by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the OCC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System have reissued 15 interagency guidance documents with references to reputation risk removed. Some of the documents are being issued with other members of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council or with other entities including the National Credit Union Administration and the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network.

The reissued materials span a wide range of supervisory topics, including sales of 100% loan participations, asset securitization activities, subprime lending programs, funds supported by banking organizations or affiliates, life insurance risk management, customer identification programs, home equity lending and remote deposit capture. They also include guidance on counterparty credit risk management, cyberattacks affecting ATM and card authorization systems, DDoS attacks, cyber extortion, cyber insurance, operational resilience and elder financial exploitation.

The agencies say they continue to review interagency documents and expect to remove any further references to reputation risk on an expedited basis. The OCC says the reissued guidance applies to community banks to the same extent that the original documents applied.

Supervisory policy shift for banks

The action extends a policy change the OCC announced on March 20, 2025, when it said it would no longer examine its banks for reputation risk and would begin removing such references from its policy issuances. That earlier step signaled a broader change in how the agency frames supervisory expectations and risk assessment for regulated institutions.

On April 10, 2026, the OCC and the FDIC published a final rule in the Federal Register that codified the elimination of reputation risk from their supervisory programs. For banks, the latest document revisions align existing interagency guidance with that rulemaking and point to continued adjustments in the regulatory language used across the U.S. banking sector.

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