By Lisa Lee and Shahien Nasiripour — Bloomberg A long-running clash over the ability of Wall Street banks to weather hard times and still pay shareholder dividends is gaining urgency as the number of Covid-19 cases ticks up and economic data remain gloomy. Critics, including a number of government and Federal Reserve veterans of the […]
By Reshma KapadiaApril 6, 2020 7:30 am ET Bad news is said to come in threes, but let’s hope full-blown crises don’t. The Covid-19 global health crisis rapidly became a global economic crisis, but, so far, it has not touched off a financial crisis. U.S. banks, for the most part, are in good shape, and central […]
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On September 19, 2017, the Systemic Risk Council submitted a comment letter to the United States Department of Treasury (UST) on its Report of June 2017 on possible reforms to banking-system regulation. The Council believes that “the UST Report includes a number of worthwhile technical reforms and addresses important issues that are largely incidental […]
On May 20, the Systemic Risk Council sent a letter to Senator David Vitter (R-LA), offering strong support for his amendment to the “Financial Regulatory Improvement Act of 2015”, which would strengthen equity capital requirements applicable to the largest financial institutions. The letter states that the Council “has long supported stronger, simpler capital requirements for large, complex institutions, […]
Statement by Sheila C. Bair, Former Chair of the FDIC and Chair of the Systemic Risk Council “I applaud the federal banking agencies for finalizing a strong simple leverage ratio to work in tandem with the more complex risk-based standard. These tougher capital rules will enhance the durability of our economic recovery and buttress the […]
On February 18, the Systemic Risk Council (SRC) called on federal regulators to simplify complex financial institutions and mandate greater public disclosure of progress in reducing their systemic imprint. The SRC specifically called on the Federal Reserve and FDIC to annually disclose their joint determination, required by Dodd-Frank, as to whether these firms have submitted […]
On January 9, the Systemic Risk Council sent a letter to the Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) Chairman Mario Draghi encouraging global financial regulators to strengthen and implement international leverage standards. GHOS is the oversight body of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision. Read the full letter below: SRC Letter to GHOS re […]
Publication: New York Times Author: Gretchen Morgenson 1/5/2014 – Regulators made some real progress last year attacking the risks of too-big-to-fail banks. The Volcker Rule and other Dodd-Frank reforms were completed, and, perhaps even more important, three big regulators devised a proposal for tougher capital rules intended to ensure that banks would never require a government bailout when their risky bets […]
Publication: Financial Times Author: Paul Volcker and John Reed 12/11/2013 —Much has been written about the degree of progress in continuing financial reform. Too little credit, however, has been given to regulators for their efforts to impose a simple, commonsense, leverage restriction on our largest bank holding companies. Read the full editorial, A Safer Financial System is Now Within […]
On October 15, the Systemic Risk Council filed a comment letter to bank regulators on the proposed enhanced supplementary leverage ratio for large bank holding companies and their insured depository institution subsidiaries. Read the full letter below: Final SRC Comment Letter re Leverage Ratio 10-15-13