Highly rated companies attract a 1.6% capital charge and lowly rated ones a 12% charge higher, oddly, than unrated companies.
For now, a higher capital charge for OTC contracts is a sensible step.
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Applied Finance subtracts from this a "capital charge, " reflecting the return investors would expect to earn from similarly risky assets.
The incentive to lend short-term to other banks in emerging economies, which used to carry a small capital charge, will also be eliminated.
Now some have characterised this as the banks being able to lend under the Bank of England's new Funding for Lending Scheme, free of capital charge.
And some institutions, bankers allege, were parking illiquid structured products in their trading books to attract a lower capital charge (regulators now plan to beef these charges up).
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Yet another would raise the capital charge on loan commitments.
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But they are happier with the government's proposals on derivatives, under which dealers will be able to continue peddling customised swap contracts away from exchanges, albeit with a higher capital charge.
Before the crisis, the Basel rules provided an incentive to create AAA-rated securities (such as the infamous structured products linked to subprime mortgages), since they carried a low capital charge for banks.
Its aim is to allow banks to purchase government insurance that will effectively turn a 95% loan-to-value mortgage into a 70% LTV mortgage for regulatory purposes, thereby substantially reducing the capital charge for the banks.
AEFA, there is no regulatory capital charge.
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In the last few weeks, the soon-to-be-disbanded Financial Services Authority has told banks that any extra lending they make to the UK economy - to businesses and households - can be provided without incurring any additional capital charge.
That said, the Bank of England has tried to take pre-emptive action against this so-called deleveraging - by saying that new lending to households and businesses, under the Funding for Lending Scheme, will not attract any capital charge.
Stewart was being held on a capital murder charge from Bowie County, Texas, and also is charged with possession of a controlled substance.
So, Amex needs less capital relative to its charge activity because fewer of the purchases turn into loans.
France is already heavily taxed, and risks deterring its entrepreneurs with an increase in the charge on capital gains.
Nor do they seem to mind much that the same body photographs their car every time they visit central London on a working day to enforce the capital's congestion charge.
With help from Jeffrey Parkhurst, managing director of business strategy at Mindshare, a WPP-owned media agency, we valued the brands by looking at brand earnings over the past three years, subtracting a charge for the capital employed and then taking a percentage of earnings based on the role brands play in each industry.
For promising to provide liquidity should capital suddenly flee, the banks charge Argentina a fee and demand Argentine bonds as collateral.
This is the measure of output (taken as operating profit after tax and some other adjustments) less input (taken as the annual rental charge on the total capital employed, both debt and equity).
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Though that will tie up its own capital longer, Verghese says he can charge customers more for this.
In Freetown, the smashed-up capital of Sierra Leone, where hotels charge New York prices for rooms and meals, another moneyed elite (both local and foreign) inflates the price of everything from toothpaste to bananas.
As head of strategy and corporate development, he is in charge of mergers and acquisitions, venture capital relationships and global strategic alliances.
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In addition the Accra-based company will ask for equity in any business that manages to raise capital with its help, and also plans to charge an additional matchmaking fee.
One charge, aiding the enemy, is a capital crime, although prosecutors have said they will not seek the death penalty.
Workday could be the blockbuster IPO that startups, venture capital investors and bankers are looking for to put a charge back into the tech IPO market.
The government has been clamping down on offshore accounts and will charge taxes of 70% to 100% of capital gains if funds are not reported.
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The gravest charge against Ms Merkel is that she amassed too much political capital and spent too little.
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Had the founding shareholders lent capital to the company, as it appears they did, they could charge interest and the interest would be deductible by the corporation.
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