(Reuters) -U.S. regulators have agreed on the terms to ease a set of capital requirements that could potentially allow banks to hold more Treasuries, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Officials from the Federal Reserve and other agencies recently submitted a final plan for a key capital reserve ratio to the White House for review, according to the report.

The Fed had voted in June to advance a plan to reform the so-called “enhanced supplementary leverage ratio” so that the amount of capital banks must set aside is directly tied to how large a role each firm plays in the global financial system.

The supplementary leverage ratio requires banks to hold capital against all assets equally, including low-risk U.S. Treasuries, an approach critics said

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