Minimum capital requirements

The bank will continue to hold cash in sweep accounts until 2031, although at a lower rate; capital requirements could lead big banks to hold off lending.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is scrapping a capital proposal it released last year and will seek comments on a new plan in 2020.

Rules related to custody banking, commercial real estate and derivatives were among the last required under last year’s regulatory relief law.

The Federal Housing Administration's mortgage insurance fund now sits in a much better financial position, but officials say it's still not strong enough to make the premium cuts the industry wants.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said Wednesday that he does not think revamping capital or liquidity requirements is necessary despite recent volatility in the repurchase markets.

Even with the FDIC actively encouraging groups to start banks, challenges like raising capital and low interest rates make it tough.

The central bank will consider rules to create a tiered structure for supervising banks with over $100 billion of assets and to ease resolution plan requirements.

The move to alter the government's preferred stock purchase agreements is the first major one under FHFA Director Mark Calabria's tenure to wind down the conservatorship of the government-sponsored enterprises.

Regulators have redefined a simplified capital measure for community banks following criticism that their 2018 proposal did not go far enough.

The regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac suggested that a finalized capital framework for the two mortgage giants could be published by the end of the year.