Where the Fed’s Michael Barr goes from here
By Kyle Campbell
Michael Barr has a lot to do and little time to do it. His term as vice chair for supervision at the Federal Reserve ends in 19 months. Before then, he hopes to change liquidity standards, require more banks to issue long-term debt and rewrite the capital framework for the nation’s largest banks…The proposal stems from an agreement struck by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in 2017, which was itself a product of the group’s post-global financial crisis policy response. Implementing the Basel endgame has been a thorny issue for regulators around the world. The U.K. and the European Union also have not fully adopted the standards into their bank oversight regimes.But Karen Petrou, managing partner of Financial Federal Analytics and a leading expert in regulatory policy, said the U.S. proposal put forth last year was simply too flawed to be codified. “The fundamental reason why the endgame capital rules and other priorities never advanced is that they were a combination of intensely technocratic detail combined with overarching, often inexplicable purposes, such as simply significantly raising capital requirements,” Petrou said. “Proposals like that, with so many technical flaws and inconsistencies combined with controversial objectives, almost always fail. It is a very poor approach to federal rulemaking.”
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