The Regulatory Price-Tag: Cost Implications of Post-Crisis Regulatory Reform. Federal Financial Analytics, Inc. July 30, 2014.

“The total cost of all of the rules that can be reliably and comparably correlated across the six U.S. global systemically-important banks (G-SIBs) assessed in this study is $70.2 billion. The increase in the cost of regulation under these rules for these G-SIBs since the crisis began is $35.5 billion, calculated as detailed in this paper after normalizing to the greatest extent possible for changes in the manner in which capital is calculated, for mergers that occurred in the course of the crisis, and for similar factors.”