The original speech, which contains various links to the documents mentioned, can be found on the US Federal Reserve System’s website. *  *  *  My remarks this evening will focus on the Supervisory Capital Assessment Program, popularly known as the banking stress test.
The federal bank regulatory agencies began the assessment program in late February and concluded their review with the release of the results just last Thursday. This initiative involved an unprecedented, simultaneous supervisory review of the 19 largest bank holding companies in the United States.