Rethinking bank capital at a ‘pivotal moment’ for the Fed

By Kyle Campbell

Michael Barr, the Biden administration’s pick to serve as the Federal Reserve’s top regulator, said during his Senate confirmation hearing that he wants to rethink the Fed’s various capital requirements “as a whole, rather than piece by piece.” Barr, who is expected to clear a Senate floor vote this summer to become the Fed’s next vice chair for supervision, struck a chord with that sentiment, particularly with Karen Petrou, managing partner at Federal Financial Analytics. “After Michael said that, I thought this was just too important an idea at a moment that really could be pivotal,” Petrou said. “We need to bring attention to it and then try to help move it along, because if the U.S. just goes back to a rule-by-rule, piece-by-piece, bits-and-pieces capital regulation, we’ll never get a coherent system without counterproductive impact.”…

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