Morning Scan: Would More Skin in the Game Make Banks Safer?

Wall Street Journal

Zions Bancorp is a comparatively small and simple fish in the "too big to fail" pond, but it's among the banks that's struggled most with the Federal Reserve's stress tests. The paper implies that Zions' predicament may be indicative of the problems with the $50-billion asset threshold used to determine which institutions are systemically important. The Salt Lake City lender focuses on "meat and potatoes banking," like lending and taking deposits, whereas most...