In a letter to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen yesterday, Sens. Mike Crapo (R- Idaho) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.) called for regulators to provide simpler capital rules and reporting requirements for community banks through the Economic Growth and Regulatory Paperwork Reductions Act process, a decennial review now winding down. The lawmakers encouraged the Fed to reconsider the necessity of having four minimum capital requirements, the capital conservation buffer and the complex definition of tier 1 capital. They also raised concerns about the increased time required to complete the quarterly Call Reports.
New York Fed: Inflation expectations improved in July
Consumer inflation expectations in July decreased slightly at the short-term horizon and remained unchanged at the medium- and longer-term horizons, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said in its most recent Survey of Consumer Expectations.









