After the 2008 global financial crisis, U.S. bank holding companies needing to cover larger-than-expected loan losses … entities acquired by each holding company in the quarters prior to their mergers. As in the related literature, we fail to … finding suggests that holding companies built up provisions to some degree during the pre-crisis period to cover larger future …

Background: Most Bank holding companies (BHCs) sustains significant losses and increased risk exposure which caused … regulation may help senior bank managers reduce risky behaviors and investments that causes significant bank losses. Originality …

This paper approximates a construction of Basel III's Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) for U.S. bank holding companies …

, that requires large banks to maintain a minimum capital ratio. The Federal Reserve Bank (Fed) regulates capital of Bank … Holding Companies (BHC) through compliance Supervisory Capital Assessment Program (SCAP) 2009 and Comprehensive Capital … risk management objective of capital adequacy, as bank managers are forced to take on more risk to meet the capital ratio …