US leveraged lending guidelines could ease if a Wall Street-friendly Trump administration tells regulators to take a more lenient line on enforcing the rules, bankers, investors and lawyers said. The guidelines, which were introduced by the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in 2013, have reduced the amount that banks lend to highly-indebted companies and put a brake on buyout deals. President-elect Trump's nominations and appointments of individuals with business and investment banking backgrounds who are familiar with these high-risk transactions are raising hopes that the guidance may be relaxed, rather than removed, by new political appointees.
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