The Basel Committee has already proposed higher capital charges for complex trading and exotic securitisations.
For the lenders, property is attractive in part because it attracts lower capital charges than most other assets.
The BOE's Funding for Lending Scheme contains substantial incentives for banks to boost their loan books by waiving regulatory capital charges on new loans.
Other banks may be forced to rejig their investment-banking arms as the impact of higher capital charges proposed under Basel 3 rules begin to bite.
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And if, as seems likely, bank-solvency rules are redesigned, capital charges for prime-broking operations could yet rise, causing a contraction in lending to hedge funds.
But that will depend on future capital charges for cleared and uncleared assets and the precise structure of trading venues, which are still not known.
Capital charges are higher for commercial property than for homes but banks can still be seduced by the apparent stability of a real asset producing predictable cash flows.
Nor do they like the idea of capital charges.
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Yet despite some talk about the need for a new Glass-Steagall act to separate retail and investment banking, and for higher capital charges based on size, the idea of breaking up institutions does not have great momentum.
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Steep downgrades of the sovereign-debt ratings of countries such as Portugal, Greece and Ireland would probably translate into immediate rating cuts for their banks, as well as higher capital charges on banks' debt holdings and bigger haircuts when using this debt as collateral.
Montgomery police plan to seek the death penalty for Muhammad and Malvo on capital murder charges, Police Chief John Wilson said Friday.
For their part, Capital One charges no foreign transaction fees on their cards, and Discover looks similarly attractive, having ditched foreign transaction fees last fall.
And it could have been far worse for Pequot Capital than the charges Thursday.
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The capital murder and terrorism charges carry the death penalty as a possible sentence.
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One other thing about Bain Capital it charges limited partners way more than do competitors.
He got into dispute with Capital One over penalty charges for late payment on his credit card.
Malvo, now 18, faces terrorism, capital murder and weapons charges in the October 2002 killing of Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Allied Capital, in contrast, charges no carry and pays its expenses out of its management fees.
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Muhammad was found guilty Monday of capital murder and three other charges related to a slaying during last year's sniper shooting spree.
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Guy's Gartmore Capital Strategy Continental Europe fund charges total expenses of 1.59% annually, less than the 1.86% average for the 558 offshore European equity funds tracked by Fitzrovia International.
Paul Kasonkomona pleaded not guilty at the magistrate's court in the capital, Lusaka, to the charges - being idle and disorderly in a public place.
First it was disclosed that the Securities and Exchange Commission was threatening his company, Harbinger Capital Partners, with possible civil fraud charges.
The trial of Mandell and Harrington ended with a guilty verdict on July 26th on all counts related to security fraud charges for their actions at Sky Capital.
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Mr Thompson revealed that last week the sister of a BBC Persian member of staff was arrested and held in solitary confinement on unspecified charges at Evin Prison in the capital, Tehran.
He also told Mr Shaw, a jeweller, about a takeover of Pacific Capital Bancorp by Union Bank, according to the charges.
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The Dow Jones VentureSource report on the state of European venture capital goes a long way to answering those two charges.
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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The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse reports from the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that the decision to drop charges against Mr Muthaura could have a bearing on the case against Mr Kenyatta, who beat Mr Odinga in the 4 March election.
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In July, the green paper on proposals for a London mayor discussed, albeit in oblique terms, another form of earmarking the possibility of taxing non-residential parking and using road charges as a way of financing the capital's future government.
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