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Banks Emerge Winners On Final Capital Rules

Basel III agreement completes the post-crisis regulatory framework.

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Banks emerged relatively unscathed from global regulators’ final batch of post-crisis capital rules, with few lenders needing to raise major new funds.

On Thursday, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued new rules on how banks estimate the risk of mortgages, loans and other assets. The compromise, reached after fierce lobbying by the industry, will cause “no significant increase” of overall capital requirements, the regulator said. For some big banks, capital demands will actually decline.

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