For risk-based capital purposes, the risk weights for Treasury securities and other securities issued or guaranteed by the U.S. government, government agencies, and government-sponsored entities will not change.
This is well above the regulatory guidelines of 100% and 300% of risk-based capital respectively.
The average tier one risk-based capital ratio for U.S. commercial banks at the end of 2009 was 11.43%, according to SNL Financial.
The rules could mean a Tier 1 common risk-based capital ratio requirement to 7% and an addition a surcharge of up to 2.5% for the most complex financial firms.
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners hired the advisory arm of PIMCO, a big fund manager, in 2009 to develop alternative risk-based capital requirements for the industry's holdings of residential mortgage securities.
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When I analyze FDIC loan exposure data lately, I find that while bigger regional banks retain considerable exposure to CRE loans, the ratios to risk-based capital are much lower and thus are not considered a threat.
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Essentially, banks rate all of their assets based on the likelihood of their default and keep a proscribed amount of capital based on the risk weighting of the asset.
Even where a loan is related to development, risk can be managed with guarantees, additional capital and cash flow projections based on reasonable assumptions.
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Now this freedom given to banks to decide their own risk ratings, or what is known as the Internal Ratings Based Approach to determining capital, yields the following consequence for our biggest banks: they all hold relatively modest amounts of capital against their large books of mortgages.
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This kind of relationship is profitable because the interceding financial firm has a much lower cost of capital than the manufacturers, and they can also adjust their fee based on the credit risk the manufacturer poses.
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