FSB Queries Effects of Post-Crisis Rules on Small Business Credit
As part of its broad review of the post-crisis regulatory framework, the Basel, Switzerland-based Financial Stability Board today sought public ...
Tag: Basel III
Basel Proposes New Leverage Ratio Disclosure Requirements
In a bid to prevent what it calls “window-dressing,” a form of regulatory arbitrage around disclosure deadlines, the Basel Committee ...
FDIC Proposes 9 Percent Leverage Ratio as Threshold for Basel III Exemption
In a long-awaited rulemaking, the FDIC today voted to propose that community banks with a leverage capital ratio of at ...
McWilliams: Most Community Banks Will See Relief Under Leverage Ratio Proposal
An estimated 80 percent of community banks will be exempt from complex risk-based capital under the yet-to-be-announced community bank leverage ...
Proposals on Community Bank Capital, Large Bank Supervision Expected by Year-End
Financial regulators will issue by year-end their proposal exempting highly capitalized community banks from the Basel III capital calculations, as ...
ABA Op-Ed: Regulators Need to Revisit Bank Capital Rules
In an American Banker op-ed today, ABA EVP Wayne Abernathy and VP Hugh Carney explain why it’s time for regulators ...
Agencies Issue Final Rule Implementing S. 2155 LCR Adjustment
The federal banking agencies today issued an interim final rule that implements an ABA-advocated provision of S. 2155 that expands ...
House Republicans to Quarles: Recalibrate Capital Surcharge
Several Republican members of the House Financial Services Committee last week urged Federal Reserve Vice Chairman for Supervision Randal Quarles ...
ABA, State Associations Call on Regulators to Finalize Capital Simplification Proposal
The American Bankers Association and all 52 state bankers associations on Friday wrote to the heads of the financial regulatory ...
Congress Enacts Bipartisan, ABA-Advocated Regulatory Reform Bill
In a landmark moment for post-crisis banking policy, the House today passed S. 2155, the Senate’s bipartisan regulatory reform bill.
