16 More than 62,000 Indigenous people reported that they were self-employed in 2016,  an increase of 44% since 2011. 17  Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business, Understanding Intellectual Property Awareness & Use by Indigenous Businesses: 2019 Intellectual Property Survey of Indigenous Businesses (Summer 2021).
If we do not apply more risk-sensitive capital requirements to these very large institutions, the usefulness of capital adequacy regulation in constraining excessive risk-taking at these entities will continue to erode. Such an erosion would present U.S. bank supervisors with a highly undesirable choice.