CAMELS ratings

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Supervisory rating of the bank's overall condition is commonly referred to as a CAMELS rating. This rating is based on financial statements of the bank and on-site examination by regulators like the Fed, the OCC and FDIC.

The components of a bank's condition that are assessed: (C) Capital adequacy, (A) Asset quality, (M) Management, (E) Earnings, (L) Liquidity and (S) Sensitivity to market risk (since 1997)

The scale is from 1 to 5 with 1 being strongest and 5 being weakest.

Notice that these ratings are not released to the public but only to the top management of the banking company. This is to prevent a bank run over a bank which has a bad CAMELS rating.

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