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

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.

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.

As capital is globalized, so basic labor standards should be global.

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.

30. We recommend that the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice give consideration to reviewing the adequacy of standards and norms in relation to prison management and prisoners.

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.

Another hoped for benefit was that capital gains could be converted into home equity loans, boosting homeowners living standards.

In other words, governments stake their own citizens because of private capital while disregarding the drop in social standards.

The current European and global frameworks for accounting standards and capital requirements, for example, have exacerbated turmoil in the markets.

On the positive side, we have broad agreement on higher quality capital and liquidity standards with appropriate phase in arrangements.

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.

But there were unintended consequences. The failure of US regulators to tighten capital and lending standards when abundant capital inflows combined with loose Fed policies ignited a furious credit boom.

No double standards.

lax accounting standards.

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.

But Russia's accounting standards no surprise have not yet reached international standards.

Diplomacy and Double Standards

I have moral standards.

Naming standards also vary.

Many people show some spark of recognition at the mention of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, which sets capital standards for banks.

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

Some of the other ideas that Hill has floated, such as relaxing the capital standards for long term investments, run counter to the EU solvency standards for insurers and pension funds that will be implemented next year.

Similarly, outsourcing to low wage countries improves living standards only if the human capital released can be used to make new goods and services.

In 2013, IEEE had over 900 active standards, with over 500 standards under development.

I assume you have standards.

Elaboration of common ethical standards.

Standards of Russian special services

Living standards should be higher.

Tom has high moral standards.

We have very high standards.

In addition to the tough new regime of personal accountability, the commission would supplement the Basel standards on bank capital with a tight leverage ratio.

In its recent reports, the FSB has concentrated on capital requirements, on closing legal loopholes that allow banks to evade them, and on improving accounting standards.

Under such circumstances, the upper middle classes in developed countries increasingly came to look for capital gains instead of improving their living standards through productive work.