INSIGHT- Fed may shun global risk rules banks spent billions to meet

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In Reuters market news, the Federal Reserve is in the spotlight. According to Reuters, the Federal Reserve may scrap international measures aimed at assessing bank health – in favor of imposing its own rules. As a consequence, the transition is frustrating bankers who have spent billions retooling their books to meet global standards. Moreover, Fed officials are concerned that parts of a key tool that regulators have developed to measure banks’ riskiness- are flawed and can be gamed by the companies…

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