A regulator responsible for the safety of banks has a message to senators: Don’t listen to bankers telling you that they need lower capital requirements to increase lending.

Despite the push from the industry to lower the standards that were ramped up in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, big banks actually have too little capital, according to Thomas Hoenig, the vice chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

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