Erika Ayers Badan: Navigating Internal Transitions At Work
Erika Ayers Badan gives advice and direction for navigating internal transitions at work.
Thought Leader: Erika Ayers Badan
Congress should stay out of new bank rules on loan losses
Thought Leader: Sheila Bair
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(Original source Financial Times)
“As I was growing up, my Depression-era parents always preached the importance of having a rainy-day fund to deal with the economic hardships life inevitably throws at you, such as job loss or illness.
Later, as a bank regulator, I valued the similar funds banks set aside to cover losses they would invariably incur on some loans. Unfortunately, in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis, those funds — called loan loss reserves — were woefully inadequate primarily because of accounting constraints that some bankers rightfully complained about at the time.
But now that accounting standard-setters are trying to improve those rules, industry lobbyists want Congress to help them preserve the status quo.”
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