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- The European Central Bank plans to simplify capital buffer rules to cut compliance costs while keeping total capital requirements, with ECB Vice-President Luis de Guindos presenting the proposals.
- The proposals would merge the systemic risk buffer and the countercyclical capital buffer.
- Bankers say the current rules are complex and disadvantage them relative to U.S. peers, while the European Commission will review the recommendations.
