The OFR issued new blog, “Updated Bank Data Show Rising Systemic Importance of Asian Banks.” The blog, by OFR Deputy Director for Research and Analysis Stacey Schreft, says that new data on the world’s largest banks show the increasing systemic importance of Asian banks. The data also show that U.S. banks’ systemic footprint still dominates the global totals. Indeed, eight U.S. banks are still considered global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). G-SIBs must hold more capital than other banks. Among the U.S. banks in the tier below G-SIBs, the U.S. operations of a few foreign banks rank as the most systemically important, according to the blog.
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