TMIB Lite: Agencies Propose New Leverage Ratio for Community Banks
By:
Sharon J. Lorman
Jeffrey P. Marsico
Richard B. Trauger, Jr.
Kyle L. Kuster
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Topic: Agencies Propose New Leverage Ratio for Community Banks
Start time: 1:27
Three federal banking agencies invited public comment on a proposal that would simplify regulatory capital requirements for qualifying community banks as required under the regulatory relief law enacted in May by giving them an option to calculate a simple leverage ratio, rather than multiple measures of capital adequacy. In a joint press release on November 21, it stated that “under the proposal, a community banking organization would be eligible to elect the community bank leverage ratio framework if it has less than $10 billion in total consolidated assets, limited amounts of certain assets and off-balance sheet exposures, and a community bank leverage ratio greater than 9 percent. A qualifying community banking organization that has chosen the proposed framework would not be required to calculate the existing risk-based and leverage capital requirements. A firm would also be considered to have met the capital ratio requirements to be well capitalized for the agencies’ prompt corrective action rules provided it has a community bank leverage ratio greater than 9 percent.” Is the 9% threshold too high?
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