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  • Bank of England Lowers Capital Requirements for UK Banks

    Bank of England Lowers Capital Requirements for UK Banks

    The Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) reduced its benchmark capital requirement for UK banks from %14 to %13 of risk-weighted assets (RWAs). Following a decline in average risk weights since 2016, a growing number of major UK banks are now more constrained by leverage ratio requirements than by risk-weighted measures. The FPC plans to…