Financial Regulation

News and Commentary Hannah Lang observes Randal Quarles' potential indication that the Fed will not make permanent May's interim exclusion of Treasury securities and Federal regional bank deposits from supplementary [...]

News and Commentary Six New York Fed economists assess COVID induced dividend suspensions' impact on capital ratios and buffers. Telis Demos writes that additional stimulus spending may increase the effect [...]

News and Commentary John Crabb forecasts a Biden-Harris administration's financial regulation in an International Finance Law Review article. A Fed proposal would roll recent stress tests in with a 2019 [...]

News and Commentary Vice President of Deutsche Bundesbank Claudia Buch describes the Financial Stability Board's evaluations of too-big-to-fail reforms in a VoxEU column, stating that systemically important banks are better [...]

News and Commentary Jesse Hamilton reports for Bloomberg that the Fed may extend a cap on dividend payments and a ban on share buybacks. New stress tests may increase capital [...]

News and Commentary Diego Zuluaga describes the undesirability of financial transaction taxes in the Cato Journal, claiming that they raise less revenues than expected while decreasing short term trading. JDSupra [...]

News and Commentary Hannah Lang at American Banker reports that the Fed published capital requirements incorporating a stress capital buffer: the projected change in capital ratio under severe stress. In [...]

In March, as the COVID-19 pandemic came to a head in the United States, the Federal Reserve took action to shore up the financial sector in the face of an [...]

News and Commentary The New York Times reports that the forthcoming stimulus bill from Senate Republicans may include a provision relaxing capital requirements on the nation's biggest banks by allowing regulatory [...]