News Summary: Stricter measure set for 8 big banks
Jul 9, 2013, 10:40 PM
(AP) – STRICTER MEASURE: Federal regulators took a step toward making the largest U.S. banks meet a stricter measure of strength to reduce the threat they pose to the financial system.
REGULATORS’ PROPOSAL: The proposal calls for those banks to increase their minimum ratio of equity to loans and other assets to 5 percent from 3 percent. The banks’ deposit-holding subsidiaries would have to increase that ratio to 6 percent.
EIGHT MEGABANKS: The rule would take effect in 2018. It would apply to banks deemed so big and interconnected that each could threaten the global financial system: Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Bank of New York Mellon and State Street.
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