FDIC chair discusses US effort to balance capital and leverage requirements

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Basel III places increasing reliance on the risk-based ratios relative to the leverage ratio, representing a "shift in terms of the longstanding complementary relationship in the US between leverage capital requirements and risk-based capital requirements," Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) chairman Martin Gruenberg said during a speech yesterday in Arlington, Virginia.

"Without a corresponding increase in the leverage requirement, there is a risk that [systemically important]

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