Fed orders post-crisis crackdown at big banks
Source: McClatchy Newspapers
The Federal Reserve moved Tuesday to correct one of the main causes of the 2008 financial crisis, ordering the nations largest domestic banks and foreign ones operating in the United States to hold more capital in case things go bad.
The long-anticipated rule covers banks both domestic and international with assets above $50 billion. It was required as part of the sweeping revamp of financial regulation back in 2010 that followed the most devastating financial crisis since the Great Depression. It aims to reduce system-wide risks.
Before the crisis, large interconnected financial institutions, many of them global in scale, were spottily supervised or had portions of their businesses supervised by multiple regulators. No one regulator was seeing the complete picture of the financial institutions activities and risks.
As the financial crisis demonstrated, the sudden failure or near failure of large financial institutions can have destabilizing effects on the financial system and harm the broader economy, said Janet Yellen, the new Fed chairwoman. And as the crisis also highlighted, the traditional framework for supervising and regulating major financial institutions and assessing risks contained material weaknesses.
Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/18/6169126/fed-orders-post-crisis-crackdown.html
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(7,051 posts)"... sweeping revamp of financial regulation back in 2010 that followed the most devastating financial crisis since the Great Depression. It aims to reduce system-wide risks."
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)cprise
(8,445 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)Well I guess it's good for them that they have the NSA in their back pockets!
corkhead
(6,119 posts)that there has been gambling going on in this establishment
bkanderson76
(266 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)"Change."
alp227
(32,025 posts)okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)hate the most. Before they had to keep a percentage of money. Now they have to keep four times that plus fill out liquidity plans. The percentage amount is probably one of the things they fought the hardest to stop, and you know those bankers friggin hate having their liquidity and capitalization plans scrutinized by government workers who make in a year what they do in a day.