Banks capital adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined.

None of the major banks met even the Basel 1 standards for capital adequacy.

There seems to be little appetite for proposals to vary capital adequacy requirements counter cyclically.

Moreover, the use of mechanistic rules to determine capital adequacy has also inadvertently encouraged systemic imprudence.

Since high risk premiums on government bonds endanger the capital adequacy of banks, half a solution is not enough.

The recent agreement by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on a new capital adequacy framework is another positive step.

Capital adequacy and liquidity risks should be assessed on a group level, rather than country by country how capital and risks are divided between countries is less important.

The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring fenced trade financing from these potential shocks.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined. Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

First, sovereign bonds held by banks are treated as risk free assets under EU rules for calculating banks solvency and capital adequacy levels.

Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.

Many eurozone banks have made far less progress in strengthening their capital adequacy and liquidity than have American and British banks since the financial crisis erupted.

Where this is not possible, it means stringently restricting what they can do and imposing higher taxes and capital adequacy requirements, thereby helping level the playing field.

Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.

Keeping those loans on the books would have meant that a bank would have had to incur a large capital adequacy provision and monitor the loans performance, at a cost to itself.

Current ultra low interest rates may be scaring people about the adequacy of future income.

Current ultra low interest rates may be scaring people about the adequacy of future income.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

That means breaking up too important to fail (or too complex to fix) institutions. Where this is not possible, it means stringently restricting what they can do and imposing higher taxes and capital adequacy requirements, thereby helping level the playing field.

Capital Shrugged

Damming Capital

Capital flight

Capitals of Capital

Capital master plan

'A capital idea!'

'Capital! Let's go!...

Outside the capital

Bank Regulation s Capital Mistake

My Body, My Capital?

When Capital Markets Fail

Rethinking Malaysia s Capital Controls

The Bankers Capital War

This includes capital punishment.

Capital flows have reversed.

Consider banks capital requirements.

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Riyadh, the Saudi capital.

Romania's capital is Bucharest.

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The advantage the country had was human capital nothing else but human capital.

Surgeons and pathology laboratories performing breast conservation need to be skilled in determining the adequacy of the procedure to assure patients of the best result.

The portion of capital inflows that is not re exported represents net capital inflows.

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Common Sense on Capital Controls