In Q1 2020, many banks had determined that the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic combined with the significant decline in their stock trading value produced a “triggering event” forcing interim goodwill testing.
In the 2008 and 2009, during the Great Recession, the industry had $50 billion in goodwill impairment losses. At 6/30/2020 there was approximately $340.6 billion in goodwill in US commercial banks and savings institutions.
Q1 2020 the banking industry recorded $8.6 billion in goodwill impairment losses.