The federal banking agencies have adopted a final rule to modify the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio standards applicable to U.S. bank holding companies identified as global systemically important bank holding companies, their subsidiary depository institutions that are Fed or FDIC-regulated, and national banks and Federal savings associations that are subsidiaries of a U.S. top-tier bank holding company.

The modifications are intended to help ensure that the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio standards serve as a backstop to risk-based capital requirements rather than a binding constraint that would disincentivize them from participating in low-risk, low-return activities like intermediating in the U.S. Treasury market.

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