Global regulators diluted a planned debt limit for banks amid warnings that the rule would penalize low-risk financial activities and curtail lending.
The measure, known as a leverage ratio, was adjusted after “thoroughly analyzing bank data,” the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision said in a statement following a meeting of regulators in the Swiss city yesterday. The group also modified a liquidity rule to make it easier to count a certain type of central bank loan against regulatory standards.
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