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Basel Head Backs U.S. End-Game
In an FT interview today, the Basel Committee’s chair, Pablo Hernández de Cos, unsurprisingly endorsed the U.S. end-game proposal, indirectly but firmly rebutting assertions that it is at variance with global norms.
The Shape of Liquidity Rules to Come
Previewing the construct of what may soon be the anticipated inter-agency proposal addressing liquidity-risk lessons-learned, Acting Comptroller Hsu today argued that the liquidity coverage ratio’s treatment of retail depositors (see FSM Report LIQUIDITY17) does not address likely depositor herding as they run for the exit.
Rounds, Sinema Press for SIFI-Designation Rollback
Senate Banking Committee Member Rounds (R-SD) alongside Sen. Sinema (I-AZ) introduced S.3601, legislation to codify 2019 standards (see FSM report SIFI35) adding significantly more obstacles to systemic designation compared to FSOC’s new approach (see FSM report SIFI36).
Steele’s Good-Bye Presses for More Tough Standards
In his last speech in office, Assistant Secretary for Financial Institutions Graham Steele today called for reassessment of the treatment of unrealized gains or losses not just under the capital rules, but also in the liquidity standards (where they are in fact to some degree now captured).
House Democrats Damn Capital Proposal With Faint Praise
In this report, we begin our assessment of Congressional end-game comment letters.
Senate Letters Slam Capital Proposal’s Tax-Equity Risk Weight Changes
Here, we turn to several Senate letters on the end-game proposal.