New Proposed Fed Lending Rules Could Tighten Development Capital

The Federal Reserve Board this past week invited comment on three proposed rules that would revise the methods for calculating risk-weighted assets for certain exposures and would increase the amount of capital that banks would be required to maintain.

Taken together, the proposals would implement in the United States the Basel III regulatory capital reforms from the international Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and changes required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

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