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Large banks relieved of some capital requirements by US regulators

By Neil Roland ( November 26, 2025, 00:39 GMT | Insight) -- A rule to ease capital requirements on large banks was approved on Tuesday by the three US federal banking regulators. The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency also proposed relaxing capital standards for community banks. The rule for large banks, called the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio, or eSLR, was adopted by the Fed in a 5-2 vote. The dissents, by President Biden-appointees Michael Barr and Lisa Cook, focused criticism on the 28 percent reductions in core capital requirements for subsidiaries.A rule to ease capital requirements on large banks was approved on Tuesday by the three US federal banking regulators....

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