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The rule requires banks to lay aside additional capital to meet a 5% capital reserve requirements by 2018 to replace a prior 3% requirement. The rule comes with other changes that limit risk in the short term funding repo market and increase the capital required to offset credit default swap risk, two problems in the 2008 financial crisis. In an editorial in the WSJ following the crisis the Journal came out strongly in favor of much higher capital reserve requirements to limit banking risk to the U.S. and global economy. It was left to Fed Governor, Daniel Tarullo, and FDIC vice chairman, Thomas Hoenig, to persevere over many years to raise the capital reserve requirements as the most effective way to control risk taking activities at banks. Estimates show U.S. banks needing to raise an additional $68 billion by 2018, $20 billion at JP Morgan Chase.
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The Fed's LISCC is responsible for regulation of U.S. banks, replacing the prior system which diffused regulatory responsibilities among the 12 Fed regional banks. The earlier system did not assign regulatory authority to a specific supervisory organization with the the resources to tackle regulatory tasks leading to the 2008 financial crisis. Fed governor Daniel Tarullo and his organization now tackle the tasks and work with Fed chairman Bernanke on regulatory matters, bringing responsibility and accountability in one location.
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Fed chairman Bernanke and Governor Tarullo set up the LISCC in 2010 to provide expert supervision at Fed headquarters that reports to them. Before this supervision was left to the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Now the Fed can draw on the 42 PhD's and other experts in its ranks to review individual bank's financial position for systemic risk in adverse scenarios and flag these risks. This is critical to effective supervision of large banks.
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Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
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The Federal Reserve's Too Cozy Relations With Banks
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Former Fed Governor of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank for 20 years, Thomas Hoenig, has followed Fed policy over a long period. He has maintained throughout that government backing takes away an essential element in the safe and conservative practices of financial institutions by encouraging the taking of excessive risks. The only way to ensure their safety is for creditors to know they bear serious risks and for the systemically important financial insitutions to know that not following safe financial practices can put these institutions and management out of business.
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Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
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Daniel Tarullo steps in around September 2009, when Congress and the administration have already buckled under pressure from the lobbying by the banking industry to weaken essential regulatory reform in derivatives trading, and in other reforms. Volcker is 82, and rarely uses his Washington office (ignored?), Tarullo is looked at by staff at the Fed from the previous lax regime of regulation with skepticism. Mervyn King at the Bank of England is alone in calling for the breakup of big banks into smaller banks, and separating utility and investment banking, which Volcker supports. As it stands now bank regulation falls under the FSA in England, with the Conservatives under Osborne looking to give the Bank of England this authority. And all the time banking behaviours at investment banks and trading desks continue in a business as usual manner.
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Debating Dodd-Frank: Is 'Too Big to Fail' Gone?
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GE Capital, AIG to Get More Government Oversight
Wall Street Journal 07/09/2013
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
Fed Boosts Pressure on Banks Over Capital Levels
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/2013
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/2013
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Wall Street Journal 05/01/2013
The Power Behind the Throne at the Federal Reserve
New York Times 07/31/2013
Fed Boosts Pressure on Banks Over Capital Levels
Wall Street Journal 08/20/2013
Banks Ordered to Add Capital to Limit Risks
New York Times 04/08/2014
Regulator Suggests End to Bank's Self-grading
New York Times 05/08/2014
Fed’s New Bank-Regulation Tune Should Be One Direction
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