The Federal Reserve is temporarily relaxing a rule that imposes additional capital requirements on deposits and Treasury securities held by the biggest U.S. banks.
The supplementary leverage ratio, or SLR, requires banks to hold an extra buffer of high-quality capital against a bank’s total assets (including derivatives exposure and off-balance sheet transactions). Under the Fed’s new rule, banks’ Treasury securities and deposits with Federal Reserve Banks won’t count toward those assets.
Alexandra Scaggs | Barron’s