The proposal would require institutions subject to the rule to maintain sufficient levels of stable funding, thereby reducing liquidity risk in the banking system. The NSFR would become effective on January 1, 2018. “The Chamber believes that the Federal banking regulators’ proposed net stable funding ratio rule does not take into account its dramatic impacts on corporate end-users,” says Andres Gil, former director of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. “Specifically, the NSFR structurally discourages banks from investing in corporate debt and further restricts end-users’ ability to hedge by increasing the cost of risk management, thus impacting the short-term financing markets and sidelining productive uses of capital.”
April 2017
