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.

This is the silliest directive ever!

When a directive is issued, you don't know who is responsible instead, they are known as, say, Directive 17.62 (meaning that it is directive no. 17 issued in 1962).

That s why I have proposed much tougher measures in the revised Capital Requirements Directive amendments now being considered by the European Parliament.

Not every PHP directive is documented below.

qhhr has mixed feelings over the directive

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.

These governments will take advantage from this directive.

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.

This directive was delivered orally to on duty editors.

Consider, for example, the European Commission s so called services directive.

This is especially important if the ClearModuleList directive is defined.

There s no official directive condoning physical violence against Afghan students.

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.

Why, then, was the European Commission s proposed services directive, which would ensure freedom to supply services across the Union to all EU companies, vilified as the Frankenstein directive ?

We received (and executed) a directive to delete all anti Putin blogs.

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

Recent attempts to remedy this under the Capital Requirements Directive have been disappointing, even though it was plainly the best that could be achieved politically given EU countries differing views on prudential supervision.

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.

The incentives to make use of the new directive will be especially strong for East Europeans.

Capital Shrugged

Damming Capital

Capital flight

The directive on free movement implies a new era of direct migration into West European welfare states.

If I may be so bold to say that this directive has just 'weakened a nation'. tsk

Capitals of Capital

Capital master plan

'A capital idea!'

'Capital! Let's go!...

Outside the capital

In the great ancient religious and ethical traditions of humankind we find the directive You shall not steal!