Today: Fed to Consider Revisions to Supplementary Leverage Ratio Standards

A bipartisan group of House Financial Services Committee members pressed the Federal Reserve and OCC to move forward with long-promised reforms to bank leverage ratios that are constraining liquidity in the US Treasury market.

Newly sworn-in Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman laid out her "pragmatic" agenda to improve bank supervision and regulation. 

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent signaled that regulators are preparing to ease capital requirements on US Treasuries held by banks.

In testimony before the Task Force on Monetary Policy of the House Financial Services Committee, industry leaders urged additional reforms in advance of implementation of the SEC's clearing mandate.

FDIC Acting Chair Travis Hill highlighted recent efforts to reform agency policy on De Novo bank formation, digital assets, resolution planning and asset thresholds.   

A Federal Reserve Board interim final rule temporarily amending the calculation of total leverage exposure within the supplementary leverage ratio of the FRB regulatory capital rule was published in the Federal Register.

The Federal Reserve Board adopted an interim final rule amending the calculation of total leverage exposure within the supplementary leverage ratio of the FRB's regulatory capital rule.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System are seeking comments on a proposed rule to amend the enhanced supplemental leverage ratio standards.