The NCUA has been announcing for months that it is going to change rules relative to risk-based capital for credit unions. The agency intends to have some credit unions who engage in activities that the NCUA deems risky to hold more capital.
Capital is safe. Capital is the regulators' cure-all to risk. Capital is the easy way out.
Since the NCUA first announced it was looking at capital rules, NAFCU has pushed back every step of the way. We have asked the agency to show us why new capital rules are necessary. We asked to be included in the discussions prior to any rulemaking. Yet the agency plodded forward with its look at capital rules, keeping everyone in the dark as to what exactly it would propose.
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