2016-04-26bloomberg.com

After years of new regulations governing the industry's capital, leverage and liquidity, the net stable funding ratio is among the last of the major constraints spurred by the 2008 financial crisis. The proposed rule -- the U.S. answer to a 2014 agreement among international regulators -- would add to an earlier demand that lenders maintain a 30-day stockpile of easy-to-sell assets to weather shorter periods of stress. Both aim to ensure banks don't have to scramble for funding in a meltdown.

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Almost all of the covered banks currently meet the proposed requirements set to take effect in 2018, according to regulators' estimates, and the few that don't are almost at the mark. They would have to report their holdings on a quarterly basis, the regulators said.



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