Research findings on the subject vary greatly. A 2015 working paper from De Nederlandsche Bank, the Dutch central bank, that surveyed academic studies on the impacts of capital requirements dating ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposed easing a key capital rule that banks say has limited their ability to operate, ...

Changes to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio would be accompanied by a 5% reduction in total loss absorbing capacity ...

The results of the central bank's so-called “stress tests” on Friday will determine how much cash lenders would need to hold ...

The desire among politicians and their regulatory enablers to foist ever=higher capital requirements on banks is relentless, and for being relentless, dangerous. Supporters of regulatory decrees ...

Applied to governments, no capital requirement would be high enough as liquidity against a book of loans made to Haiti, but if a bank could solely claim U.S. Treasuries on its books, ...

Applied to governments, no capital requirement would be high enough as liquidity against a book of loans made to Haiti, but if a bank could solely claim U.S. Treasuries on its books, ...

U.S. preparing to relax big-bank capital rules. Current requirements punish holdings of safe assets such as Treasurys, banks say. Regulators will soon propose easing requirements.

The high capital requirement is beneficial to the economy and to the banks themselves and they must, therefore, endeavour to progressively meet the new threshold as prescribed by the law.

Cardiff reinvents small-business lending to deliver smarter, more adaptive working capital loans to accelerate growth ...