The International Monetary Fund yesterday urged US and European regulators to consider imposing higher bespoke capital requirements on “systemically important” banks deemed “too big to fail”.
The discussion of capital surcharges for big banks will prove controversial on Wall Street and in London, where bankers have argued that large institutions should not be penalised by regulators because of their size.
US and European governments have pledged to overhaul regulation to avoid a repeat of the huge public bail-outs of troubled institutions from Citigroup to Royal Bank of Scotland seen during the financial crisis.
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