Just to add, what's called "capital" in banking is basically the bank's equity. And there are proposals to force banks to carry a lot more equity (even if, my god, that reduces the return on equity earned - with a concomitant reduction in risk, though, thus making the equity no less valuable, theoretically speaking).
See for example The Bankers' New Clothes: What's Wrong with Banking and What to Do about It (2014) by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig.
