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Box 1 – Key outcomes
- Improved capital effectiveness – Fewer uncertainties and complexities that could undermine confidence, and hinder recovery or resolution.
- Reduced compliance costs – Banks are no longer subject to the regulatory burden around design, marketing and issuing of AT1.
- Enhanced proportionality – A simpler approach and lower capital requirements for smaller, domestic banks.
Box 2 – Current vs proposed frameworks
- Simplifying the capital framework by replacing AT1 with other existing, more reliable forms of capital.
- Includes a graphic that depicts the minimum regulatory capital requirements and capital buffers into column graphs.
- Banks are required to meet the capital conservation buffer (CCB), domestic systemically important bank (D-SIB) buffer, and the countercyclical capital buffer (CCyB) with Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) Capital. These capital stacks exclude additional loss-absorbing capacity requirements.
Box 3 – Expected impacts from the proposals
- Financial system – Greater confidence and certainty in crisis response
- Banks – Simple and proportional implementation
- Investors – Orderly adjustment, with no immediate impact on existing AT1