On July 1, the Federal Reserve Board announced plans to launch a new tool to assist community banks with assets of less than $1 billion implement the Current Expected Credit Losses (CECL) accounting standard. The new spreadsheet-based tool, known as the “Scaled CECL Allowance for Losses Estimator” (or SCALE) will use publicly available regulatory and industry data and is intended to simplify CECL compliance for community banks. The SCALE tool will be launched during an “Ask the Fed” webinar on July 15.