Making banks safer

............While this is a measure consistent with the global pattern, the increment being proposed is smaller than that enforced on global systemically important banks (G-SIBS), which is around two per cent. Of course, the context for the two categories is quite different, with failure of the G-SIBs posing a threat to the world's financial system. But, that apart, it must be accepted that the analytical foundations for both the basic capital adequacy norms and the premiums for D-SIBs and G-SIBs are tenuous. Their effectiveness can only be gauged when the system is under stress; if found wanting, they are made more stiff and, once again, only the next crisis will demonstrate ............

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