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Stressful Times Call for Renewed Stress Testing
With the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), there has been the expected cry for greater regulation and the urging as to why the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) and Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (DFAST) did not apply. The purpose of this article is not to argue that it should not have been considered under these important supervisory tools, but rather to articulate that neither of these programs would have prevented the bank's downfall. They may have helped by requiring the bank to ask questions of some of its strategic decisions and providing some level of governance around the risk it was taking, but they would not have prevented the collapse.