What improvements have been made to capital standards in recent years?
Over the past decade governments, regulators and financial institutions themselves have made a number of game-changing strides to strengthen bank solvency levels: increasing minimum capital requirements and introducing stricter rules on what constitutes bank capital. Improvements include:
- The Basel III global capital standard, which outlined stricter regulations on capital and risk-weighted asset calculations.
- An alphabet soup of new capital regulations, including Total Loss-Absorbing Capacity (TLAC) at a global level and its European iteration: the Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL).
- Myriad government-led stress tests.
Bank capital structures today are much simpler. They ensure that institutions are adequately equipped to continue critical functions without threatening financial market stability. And there is a clear hierarchy of loss absorption and capital subordination that ensures the burden of losses in any financial crisis situation is transferred from taxpayers to stakeholders. This is referred to as a bail-in regime.
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