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EU Eyes Softening Global Bank Capital Rules

European Commission looks at revising requirements to spare weak banks.

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The European Union is preparing a rewrite of international capital requirements as part of a growing effort to soften the blow of regulations on struggling banks.

The European Commission will announce a sweeping plan as early as next month for enacting global standards, including a requirement for lenders to have more stable funding to weather a future crisis. The EU’s executive arm is debating ways of softening the rule’s impact on trading in derivatives and short-term funding markets that could spare banks billions of dollars in costs.

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