Overall, the plan will raise big banks' capital by 9% compared with 19% originally, Barr said. It would increase capital for banks with less than $250 billion in assets, such as KeyBank, M&T and ...

The Federal Reserve Board’s vice-chair of supervision, Michael Barr, on Tuesday, outlined proposed Basel regulations which, if approved, would roughly halve the additional capital that big banks ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday proposed easing a key capital rule that banks say has limited their ability to operate, drawing dissent from at least two officials who say the move could undermine im ...

The new proposal would increase capital levels for big banks like JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America by 9% in aggregate, down by half from the original plan from more than a year ago, which set ...

The U.S. Federal Reserve's top bank watchdog is defending a sweeping government plan that would significantly boost capital requirements for Wall Street's biggest banks. Michael Barr, the Fed's ...

The largest U.S. banks will benefit from the Federal Reserve’s upcoming changes to its capital-requirement proposals to bulk up balance sheets for potential systemic problems, KBW analysts David ...

In a speech to the Brookings Institution, Fed Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr said regulators will re-issue watered-down drafts of the "Basel Endgame" rule and a separate capital rule for ...

Federal Reserve Board Vice Chair for Supervision, Michael Barr, testifies before a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing in the wake of recent bank failures, on Capitol Hill ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve's regulatory chief on Tuesday outlined a sweeping overhaul easing two major draft bank capital rules following intense industry opposition that delayed ...