The pluses and pitfalls of US bank deregulation

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You have to give them it: Bankers are good sales workers. Despite Mehm’s world – trade, geography and market, it is caused by most US President Donald Trump – Big Wall Street banks have seen their stocks in the past, because investors have removed a worrying spike on Treasury results, bought the banks of the banks.

They can be exactly right. In the sum of, JP Morgan, Goldman Shutches, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and City Group made together About $ 37bn trading revenue In the first quarter of the year. For the first part of that period – until February 19 of S&P 500 – Bullish equity trades are drawn at an insane speed fees; Since then it was even more terrifying, but less profitable, business trends that support the revenue. “The business is performing very well,” Goldman Shutch inevitably told Bullish boss David Solomon analysts, “When the trend was continued in the end of the bank’s quarter and in April. “Clients are [still] Very active. “

Analysts can cut some of their overweight recommendations for banks as optimism of Wall Street in January that Trump’s money was controlled, tax deduction and an emerging economy, giving the way to the disappointment that the President is starting to recession.

However, there is still a confidence that “instability and value” will maintain the business revenue by 2021 and the bank will drive stock, Morgan Stanley Banks’ analyst Batsi Grassek says.

More fundamentally, the damage they did for the chaotic tariff communication and dollars of Trump, equity markets and Usually bulletproof treasuryMay strengthen the possibility of promised control and urgency. And it is not determined in bank stocks. “The market is determining the price of what is happening today,” Grassek said. “It’s not a look at the market.”

JPMargan Chief Jamie Dimon has spent an intelligent line, spelling the systemic link between the regulatory reforms and a treasury market that will be better able to protect the market -making banks from extreme instability. “Remember, [deregulation] Is not relieved for banks, it is relieved for the market, ” He Since he presented the results of the first-third. It can make the banks of the banks more interesting to encourage their own investment allocation.

So what kind of control are we talking about? The Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell told the Congress Committee meeting of February “It’s time” To reform the so -called complementary leverage ratio. These may include removing the treasury from the total asset number of SLR or minimal ratio. Analysts believe that such changes can be effective before the end of the year.

Dimon said that some can help some banks, though to bring true differences to other capital, fluidity and stress test requirements need to be resolved for “deep defects”. Solomon, already, expressed his confidence that extensive-based reforms were coming not only in SLR. “I think there are places for the component telwinds around the capital,” He says analysts Last week. “The messages that I am getting will leave me hopefully that will progress that will progress.”

Dimon and Solomon are not a random voice in the subject. Trump was affected by both when he agreed Give its “mutual” duty break in the world on April 9 (Demon’s annual only 48 hours ago Shareholders Warned about inflation and recession risk; And Goldman predicted A 45 percent chance of recession))

Fed is an important hydraulic for control. And although Powell has maintained a powerful line on the purity of an independent monetary policy, he seems to be more in the bank rules. Powell in addition to his enthusiasm for SLR renovation Said last week That (more) the so-called Basel III Endegem-US will apply water to the US application of the latest global rule in the United States-“soon”. Michelle Boman, Trump’s Light-Tuch Nominated candidate as Vice-Chair of Fed for supervision, Must be approved In the upcoming weeks.

The gentle analysis of all of this is that US banks will be released to support economics and markets and offset the short -term disrupted pressure. There is also one more alert to read: The The rules loose For regional banks under the Randy Quarls, Trump was a major contributor to the 2021 regional bank crisis as the Fed Evening Boss of Trump MK 1. Nobody is interested in shaking the pendant from the super-saf.

patick.jenkins@ft.com