Wall Street bank capital to fall 4.8% under new rules, in win for industry

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-bank-regulators-unveil-long-awaited-capital-rule-rewrite-2026-03-19/

    Posted by MudBloodLite

    29 Comments

    1. MudBloodLite on

      To sum up, banks will be required to keep less capital on hand to cover the potential fallout of their risky investments which will then allow them to use that money to make more risky investments.

      If you’re young and don’t remember who pays the bail-out bill when these types of plans go horribly wrong, it’s your tax money. Why? Because fuck you, peasant. That’s why. 

    2. SerialStrategist on

      Haven’t we been through this already? When will we learn that our actions have consequences?

    3. Emergency_Froyo_3030 on

      Apparently we dont learn from the past. The people running and overseeing the nations’s financial system are very incompetent.

    4. realribsnotmcfibs on

      All I have known my entire life is financial turmoil completely avoidable with basic rules and regulations.

      At least I can be rest assured that is all my daughter will know also.

      Gotta pump those numbers until the ballon pops.

    5. It’s a win for them until they need a bailout. And then it’s probably a massive win for them because the taxpayers will probably get stuck with it rather than letting them collapse due to their own regardedness.

    6. Smok3dSalmon on

      Good news for banks before earnings season… you know what that means. Mid April earnings is going to be a blood bath. But all the banks will glaze Trump for changing the rules.

    7. Healthy_Razzmatazz38 on

      there needs to be some happy medium between banks get to leverage 20:1 and lending going to private credit where its untraceable and can blow up.

      idk what hte right way to do that was but its clear 2007 was not correct, and now is not correct.

    8. Several_Vanilla8916 on

      This is definitely the time to loosen bank regulations. Nothing can possibly go wrong.

    9. The last time they did something similar with capital requirements during the recovery from the covid drop it juiced the market into an upward spiral that led to the bubble we’re in right now where the indexes are double what they were at the peak prior to the crash.

    10. There is 8.19 trillion in money market accounts, there is no shortage of lending and investment, if anything there is too much available.

      We’re at the level of available liquidity moves like these are actively harmful. The hoard of cash bids up any interesting debt to a risk level that banks don’t need to be trying to compete against anyway.

    11. Business_Most_314 on

      Need to take a page out of Iceland’s book and start locking these fools up

    12. magneticpasta9 on

      Probably to stop the market from crashing right now. However will certainly be used for fraud once this isnover

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