House Passes ABA-Backed Liquidity Bill
The House today passed H.R. 1624, a bipartisan, ABA-backed bill that would expand banks’ ability to count municipal securities as ...
Tag: Liquidity
ABA Provides Insights on Capital Markets Reform to Treasury
ABA staff recently met with officials at the Treasury Department, which is in the process of issuing recommendations related to ...
From Katrina to Harvey: Five Ways Banks Are More Resilient to Disaster Today
Thanks to hard lessons from Hurricane Katrina, banks today are more resilient than ever.
In Talk on Post-Crisis Regs, Yellen Embraces ‘Appropriate Adjustments’
Speaking to the annual monetary policy conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo., today, Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen offered a broad ...
ABA’s Carney: It’s Time to Revisit Leverage Ratio
As currently designed, the supplementary leverage ratio for the largest banking organizations risks harming banks’ role as a safe haven ...
Fed Proposes New SIFI Risk Rating System
The Federal Reserve today proposed a new supervisory rating scale for large bank holding companies with more than $50 billion ...
Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Calls for Better Exam Coordination
In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin yesterday, a group of bipartisan lawmakers urged Treasury to prioritize policy changes ...
Fed Gov. Powell Advocates for Central Counterparty Stress Testing
In a speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago today, Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell said that regulators should ...
Mnuchin: Foreign Investment in U.S. Banking Industry Drives Economic Growth
Foreign investment in the U.S. banking system helps to diversify the financial system and drive economic growth, Treasury Secretary Steven ...
ABA: Regulations Should Be Tailored Based on Risk, Business Model
Regulations based on asset size are “inappropriate and needlessly burdensome” for many banks with non-complex business models, and ultimately lead ...
