The us federal reserve moved to rewrite rules on stress testing and leverage ratios, which could turn out to be a wash for the largest banks if both proposals are adopted. That's because the CCAR proposal would potentially boost Tier 1 Capital for the largest banks by US$10-$50bn. At the same time a proposal to simplify the supplementary leverage ratio could ease capital requirements and reduce the amount of Tier 1 capital required across the insured bank subsidiaries of the GSIBs by about US$121bn.
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