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Rulemaking · Federal Reserve · Sep 18, 2023

Regulatory Capital Rule: Large Banking Organizations and Banking Organizations With Significant Trading Activity

The Basel III endgame proposal would raise capital requirements for the largest US banks by overhauling how they measure credit, market, and operational risk. The agencies re-proposed it in 2026 and have not finalized it.

Docket or bill
FR 2023-19200 / RIN 7100-AG64
Comment period
Sep 18, 2023 – Nov 30, 2023
Official record
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/09/18/2023-19200/regulatory-capital-rule-large-banking-organizations-and-banking-organizations-with-significant
Tracked as
Regulatory Capital Rule: Large Banking Organizations and Banking Organizations With Significant Trading Activity
Issued by
Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Department of the Treasury

Traceable spending around this event

Tracked direct contributions from finance banking donors to candidates in the year before the event, with transfers to PACs and parties and independent expenditures reported apart, and lobbying on BAN, FIN issue codes in the surrounding window. These are partial, tracked figures scoped to a window, not totals for the industry. Independent expenditures are spent for or against candidates, not given to them, and are never added to the giving figures.

Giving window: Sep 18, 2022 – Sep 18, 2023. Donation records in this database currently run through Oct 20, 2026; lobbying filings through 2026. Figures computed Oct 29, 2026.

Tracked direct giving to candidates (finance banking)

$896,278

112 contributions to person recipients

Transfers to PACs and parties (finance banking)

$35,507,025

3,111 contributions to non-person recipients

IE support

$388,354

2 independent expenditures for candidates

IE oppose

$0

0 independent expenditures against candidates

Lobbying (BAN, FIN)

$605,075,108

1,783 filings, whole-filing LDA totals

Positions on record

10

curated

Tracked direct giving to candidates (finance banking)$896,278
Transfers to PACs and parties$35,507,025
Independent expenditures supporting candidates$388,354
Lobbying (BAN, FIN)$605,075,108

Giving to candidates, transfers to PACs, independent expenditures and lobbying are separate figures and are not summed.

Positions

Top lobbying on these issues

Clients with the most reported lobbying spend on BAN, FIN issue codes in the window around the event. Lobbying reports cover multiple issues, so spend is not attributable to this event alone.

Figures are drawn from tracked FEC donations and Senate LDA lobbying disclosures held in this database. See the methodology for how spending is scoped to an event window. The spending shown is publicly disclosed, and no violation of law is alleged. Its timing does not establish that any spending caused the outcome.