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by Quarrel 1198 days ago
Others have given you some US specific answers, but they're broadly set for most of the global banking world by the Basel accords.

The world is currently trying to meet the Basel III standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basel_III

The situation in any specific country can be bit different in the timelines and ways they meet the standard however.