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Global Bankers Release $500B In Capital To Facilitate Lending

PYMNTS

Financial regulators have made $500 billion in capital available for lenders around the world , which gives lenders the freedom for another $5 trillion of loans around the world to go toward cushioning the blow the coronavirus has dealt to the world’s economy. In the U.S., unemployment has soared to record highs.

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Fed's Barr frames capital reform as final chapter of Dodd-Frank

American Banker

The Federal Reserve's top regulator cited the financial crisis of 2008 repeatedly in a speech about the merits of new risk-capital standards — proposals that have drawn unprecedented fire from banking trade groups and members of Congress.

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Pressure Mounts For India NBFCs As Reliance Capital Exits Lending Business

PYMNTS

India-based financial services provider Reliance Capital has announced it will exit the lending market. Following Ambani’s announcement, shares in Reliance Capital dropped to their lowest level in two decades. Since their highest level in January 2008, reports said, shares have lost about 99 percent of their value. “It

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Should Congress Increase FDIC Insurance Limits?

South State Correspondent

The regulators are considering three options: raising the limit above $250k, raising the cap for only certain accounts (such as banks’ business accounts), or eliminating the cap entirely. We have witnessed more bank failures by asset size in 2023 than in 2008 and 2009 combined. economy needs.

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ICC Says Regulation Limits Trade Finance

PYMNTS

Reports in Reuters on Tuesday (May 28) said UBS expects its regulatory costs to remain high in the years ahead after a decade of more stringent regulations leading to heavier, more costly burdens on banks. “That has tied up enormous resources.” “Why is this so significant?

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CRE risk management: Identify and manage concentration risk

Abrigo

You might also like this podcast, "How to sleep easier at night about your capital and risk levels." For example, during the 2008 Subprime Mortgage Crisis, commercial real estate prices fell drastically by 30 percent year over year. Some of these stressors include interest and vacancy rates or a decline in collateral values.

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Silicon Valley Bank said it was too small to need regulation. Now it’s ‘too big to fail’ | Rebecca Burns and Julia Rock

TheGuardian

Eight years ago, when the bank’s CEO, Greg Becker, personally pressed Congress to exempt SVB from post-2008 financial reform rules, he cited its “low risk profile” and role supporting “job-creating companies in the innovation economy”.