Global systemically important banks (G-SIBs), of the kind whose imprudent derivatives loan policies shook the global economy, will have their credit exposure restricted under a proposed new Federal Reserve Board single-counterparty-credit-limit rule. “In the financial crisis, we learned that the largest and most complex banks and financial institutions lent or promised to pay large amounts… Read More >>
FSB’s Capital Requirements Target ‘Too Big to Fail’
The Financial Stability Board (FSB), the six-year-old international body created in response to the Great Recession, has issued requirements intended to keep “systemically important” banks solvent particularly during crisis in an effort to prevent firms that are “too big to fail” and have to be bailed out via government funds. The financial requirements for banks… Read More >>