China's central bank and banking and insurance regulator set up a counter-cyclical capital buffer mechanism on Wednesday to help banks fend off risk and to keep the financial system stable.

The safety buffers of banks in the European Union would swell by billions of euros under proposed rules that allow lenders to include the value of software investments like cybersecurity in capital ...

Federal Reserve Governor Michael Barr on Thursday said he favors decoupling the U.S. central bank's stress testing framework from binding capital requirements to "maximize the informative value of the ...