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Email There has been increasing pressure on banks to increase their equity capital levels (and decrease their leverage ratio) in response to losses caused by declines in asset values. Historically, U.S. bank regulatory policy has limited the sources of equity capital that were available to banks, as policymakers have considered it essential to maintain the separation between the activities of banking and of commerce, even if that meant depriving banks of the potential for raising equity from private institutional investors. https://www.cadwalader.com/resources/clients-friends-memos/private-equity-investments-in-troubled-banks