FDIC's Supervisory Insights Summer Edition Focuses on Lending to the Oil and Gas Sector — 2018-09-05

FDIC’s Supervisory Insights Summer Edition Focuses on Lending to the Oil and Gas Sector The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today issued the Summer 2018 issue of Supervisory Insights, which highlights the specialized business of bank lending to the oil and gas (O&G) sector. “Oil Price Volatility and Bank Performance: A View from the Supervisory Process” discusses how the steep drop in oil prices beginning in 2014 tested the risk-management practices of insured banks active in O&G lending and other banks operating in geographic areas that depend on the O&G industry. “This article shares FDIC observations from its surveillance efforts and supervisory activities relative to these institutions,” said Doreen R. Eberley, Director of the FDIC’s Division of Risk Management Supervision.