The weekend announcement by the Basel Committee of an apparent easing in lenders' regulatory capital requirements was positively received by analyst Ian Gordon at Investec.More specifically, it offers "further comfort around leverage ratio requirements," although, "the devil is in the detail," he explained in a morning note to clients.Thus, while for certain European banks it offers potential relief around counterparty netting and off-balance sheet items for UK banks the positives are less clear given UK "super-equivalents," he further said. In fact, Barclays must now meet a 3% (adjusted) leverage in June 2014 rather than end-2018, but BIS-largesse should positively inform the UK debate and offer some check and balance.However, the new requirements reaffirm the so-called Pillar 1 core Tier-1 equity capital (CET1) requirements of 4% in 2014 rising to 4.5% in 2015. Those are entirely consistent with Barclays' plan to reach a "fully loaded" CET1 CRD IV ratio of 10.5% in early 2015.As a result of the above Gordon reiterated his 'buy' recommendation on Barclays and his 305p share price target. As of 15:14 shares of Barclays were rising by 1.96% to the 288.95p level. AB