This suggests banks are still struggling to efficiently follow the higher standards introduced since the financial crisis.
Mr. Lawsky will choke off access to firms that fail to meet a new set of standards introduced on Tuesday.
"The society's equality standards, introduced earlier this year, focus on areas where we have seen little progress over the last decade.
It advocates setting an early timeline for the nationwide introduction of more stringent vehicle emissions rules — namely, Euro V and Euro VI, standards introduced in the European Union.
Common standards introduced in 2002, however, have made them more reliable perhaps reliable enough to provide a snapshot of individual streets.
"Crash-test standards introduced 20 years ago for cars sold in Europe are yet to be met by many new cars being sold today in leading middle-income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Houses built to strict new regulatory standards introduced after the devastation of Black Saturday fared worse than older houses in bushfires that swept through the Wye river and Separation creek in December, a CSIRO report has found.
Some politicians – notably the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, who says the capital's new small homes are "shameful" – want a return to the so-called Parker Morris standards, introduced for council housing in 1967.
