The 2008 financial crisis brought a great loss to investors and banks around the world. Regulators and government enact a series of regulations like the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the Dodd-Frank Act). In this paper, we investigate banks’ change in lending behavior after the 2008 financial crisis by using the denial loan to income as our dependent variable. We use the 2004 to 2015 HMDA US bank holding company data to test whether there is an incremental effect of liquidity and capital ratio on the denial loan to income ratio after the 2008 financial crisis and regulatory changes. We provide evidence that banks with higher capital ratio become more unwilling to grant mortgage applications in the post-crisis periods. In addition, we also point out some certain issue of HMDA database and our dependent variable.