It was not really capital.
This I believe is an appropriate time for this hearing as it comes at the end of Chairman Sheila Bair's 5-year term.
Chairman Bair's time in office has been marked by the financial crisis and by profound changes in banking law.
Wouldn't it be good policy in a free market economy to basically let the world know and the banks know and businesses know that if they fail...
As I understand the agreement of Basel III Capital Accords, the agreement and the thrust is to increase the amount of capital that large glo...
The regulators have some culpability here.
But it sure did not make them any stronger, did it?
I think a lot of this industry pressure to count debt as capital would go away.
There was a couple hundred billion dollars of dividends that got paid out of banks and bank holding companies leading up to the crisis that ...
Since the passage, however, S&P, Standard & Poor, has said that it will confer higher credit ratings on the largest banks because it continu...
Today, as you said, we will examine the State of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.