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Over the past year banks in the United States have been locked in an epic fight against regulators.
They're battling over a set of proposed rules that are known as Basel III endgame.
Basel III.
Basel III endgame.
Basel III.
It sounds like it's some strange Swiss spinoff of like Avengers endgame or something like that.
And I think it's basically like the most exciting title that banking regulations have ever been given.
That's CFT's U.S. banking editor, Joshua Franklin.
But unlike the Avengers, who the good guys are and who the bad guys are depends on who you ask.
On one side, You have the U.S.
Federal Reserve.
They introduced this endgame proposal about a year ago.
So it's essentially saying that banks have to hold more capital and capital is there to absorb potential losses in a financial crisis and means that banks would be in a better position to weather any stress that might come their way.