AAA-rated structured products ahead of international implementation of the Basel 2 regulations on bank capital.
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Sovereign spreads marched higher again in the run-up to Basel III standards on bank capital adequacy.
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Bank regulators have tried to respond to this trend by drafting new rules on bank capital.
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Currently, bank-held federal-agency securities and debt amount to one-third of total bank capital a highly concentrated risk.
But Mr Tucker did draw a clear distinction in his speech between bank capital and bank liquidity.
Supposedly it can trade stocks freely and bank capital gains, distributing them only when the donor wants income.
The explanation must be that bank capital regulation is based on book values of capital, not market values.
The Federal Reserve oversees the test which measures how bank capital levels would fare under strained economic conditions.
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Will bank capital inadequacies cause a contagion that can not be contained by word or promise of politicians?
Risk aversion, fear of default and depleted bank capital have caused private borrowing rates to deviate sharply from policy rates.
Truth is, the 80%-back-to-holders goal may have been a little nutty, given that bank capital accumulation is so important to surviving a downturn.
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The new Basel rules are rightly designed to ensure bank capital and liquidity structures better reflect risks and reduce the systemic exposure for taxpayers.
Rather than bore you with the details, just know that many insurance company, pension fund, bank capital, holdings must be in AAA rated securities.
In 2008 and 2009 I probably wrote more than anything else about needlessly destroying bank capital with a strict application of mark to market accounting.
In 2008-09 already troubled U.S. banks were being battered by a recently reenacted, arcane accounting rule that was gratuitously destroying the book value of bank capital.
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With further disputes over bank capital laws also creating a significant split among EU states, the U.K. could well find itself prospering from the general economic malaise.
The Federal Reserve is not an agency that likes to surprise the markets but its proposed rule on bank capital ratios is throwing some banks for a loop.
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NPR's Linda Gradstein reports from the West Bank capital, Ramallah.
The Treasury bought preferred stock in over 700 banks to give them an additional capital cushion, while mortgage backed securities and mark to market accounting were wiping bank capital out.
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This risk is mitigated by the current moderate level of nonperforming loans (1.1% of total lending), larger provisions for bad loans, and more stringent bank capital-adequacy requirements in recent years.
The last time, a decade ago, that international supervisors looked at bank capital, it took three years to put into law in Europe changes that American regulators applied in three months.
The Financial Stability Board, which co-ordinates the G20's financial policies, has asked standard-setters and regulators to find ways of yanking ratings out of rules on bank capital, fund holdings, margin agreements and so on.
An overwhelming majority of EU member states is willing to sign up to the political deal reached with the European parliament, which is part of legislation to enact a sweeping overhaul of bank capital rules.
The Mittelstand's trade association complains that even the friendliest savings banks are tightening their purse strings as a result of the Basel 2 accords on bank capital, which compel them to hold extra reserves against loans to small firms.
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As I railed over and over in blogs, speeches and TV appearances prior to April 2009, the strict application of mark to market accounting to banks had a devastating impact on bank capital during the early stages of the financial crisis.
These accords are a global regulatory standard on bank minimum capital requirements, bank liquidity, and bank leverage.
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It will suggest incorporating a leverage ratio into bank-capital requirements, to supplement the existing risk-weighting of assets.
However, 2.7 million is a much larger figure than previously anticipated by investment bank Lazard Capital Markets.
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The survey listed Amalgamated Bank, BMW Bank, Capital One, Discover and Tompkins Trust as charging no fee for purchases made abroad.
Bank-capital ratios now exceed pre-crisis levels and most of their TARP money has been repaid at a profit to the government.
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