Scott Fitzgerald: “Housing affordability is a major issue before the House of…”

“That's often used by the gscs and larger financial institutions. Similarly, we support well capitalized transactions like that to provide … Housing affordability is a major issue before the House of Representatives. … so maybe he'll follow up that. To Mr. Griffith, how do the revised capital proposals, particularly changes to risk weight and the treatment of trading activities, improve banks ability to provide hedging and risk management services to producers, farmers and maybe commercial end users.” (01:54–02:08)

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