Too-Big-to-Fail Banks Face Up to $870 Billion Capital Gap

Bloomberg: Too big to fail is likely to prove a costly epithet for the world’s biggest banks as regulators demand they increase debt securities to cover losses should they collapse.

The shortfall facing lenders from JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) to HSBC Holdings Plc could be as much as $870 billion, according to estimates from AllianceBernstein Ltd., or as little as $237 billion forecast by Barclays Plc.

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