We learnt this month that the US Federal Reserve had decided not to raise the countercyclical capital buffer required of banks above its current level of zero, even though the US economy is at a cyclical peak. It also removed “qualitative” grades from its stress tests for American banks, though not for foreign ones. Finally, the Financial Stability Oversight Council, led by Steven Mnuchin, US Treasury secretary, removed the last insurer from its list of “too big to fail” institutions.
尽管美国manbetx20客户端下载 正处于周期的顶峰,美联储(Fed)本月却决定不上调目前为零的银行逆周期资本缓冲率。美联储还取消了本国银行压力测试中的“定性”测试部分,不过外国银行不包括在内。最后,由美国财长史蒂芬•姆努钦(Steven Mnuchin)领导的金融稳定监督委员会(Financial Stability Oversight Council)把其“大到不能倒”机构名单中的最后一家保险公司也移除了。