At the Federal Reserve: New Banking Regulation, but Fewer Loans?

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Large banks often use greater regulation by the government, particularly the Federal Reserve, as a reason to slow the pace at which they give loans. These banks may be right. When risk factors are curtailed, financial institutions believe their options to deploy money to customers is hampered. And new rules on bank risk are coming. The economy, in need of capital for expansion, may find itself starved instead.

According to The Wall Street Journal:

Financial regulators on Tuesday stated explicitly what they have been signaling for months: More action is needed to reduce risks posed by the nation’s largest banks to the broader economy.

The Federal Reserve outlined a plan for reining in the biggest banks during a meeting in which it unanimously approved a new capital framework for all banks.

While many of the details remain to be decided, officials said they plan to act in the coming months on four proposals aimed at the eight banks dubbed globally “systemically important,” including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. In sum, the proposals set out for the first time an aggressive new road map for how regulators plan to address persistent criticism they haven’t gone far enough to rein in “too big to fail” banks.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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