Taxing the returns to capital will obviously reduce the amount of capital flowing in.
Labor productivity and wages depend on the amount of capital labor has to work with.
The one thing that insurers do have some power over is the amount of capital in their business.
Depending on how assets are valued on a balance-sheet, the amount of capital banks have today can vary enormously.
This, in turn, pushes up the amount of capital the firms have to set aside for a rainy day.
Eight IPOs priced last week, but the amount of capital raised by IPOs so far this year is down 25%.
The message for companies in either situation is the same: raise the amount of capital your business needs to succeed.
Leverage is the act of borrowing lots, or taking on large liabilities, when compared with the amount of capital you have.
In February 2012, the commodities exchanges cut by 9% the amount of capital that speculators need to set aside before trading.
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Internally, business unit managers need to understand how the amount of capital they are allocated reflects the risk of their business.
If so, regulators might need to increase sharply the amount of capital that financial firms hold to protect themselves against extreme conditions.
In an ideal world, the amount of capital that banks put aside ought to depend on the riskiness of their loan portfolio.
Bank of Ireland blamed the rising cost of providing these mortgages and new rules on the amount of capital it must hold in reserve.
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For example, as the risk that Greece would leave the euro went up, the amount of capital leaving the country increased and the economic activity declined.
Huizenga and Berrard are not naive about the difficulties in combining disparate operations, many of which are tiny family-owned outfits, nor about the amount of capital involved.
The country's biggest banks have their own internal models that try to link the amount of capital put against a loan to the creditworthiness of the borrower.
New rules on bankers' bonuses and the amount of capital that banks must hold as a buffer have been approved by the European Parliament by a big majority.
This already seems to have happened with hedge funds and commodities, and it may be about to happen with private equity, given the amount of capital that it has recently raised.
The commission, chaired by Sir John Vickers, an independent-minded economist, also called for a big increase in the amount of capital held within these ring-fenced banks as a buffer against losses.
Tax transparency will of course raise the rate of taxation on the returns to capital: tax transparency will thus reduce the amount of capital flowing in and thus reduce the amount of poverty alleviated.
So if you are a creditor of a bank, you are legitimately concerned that forbearance is a way for banks to avoid raising the amount of capital the banks need to absorb potential losses.
To translate: this portrayed Dexia as one of the strongest banks in Europe, because it meant Dexia was deemed by regulators to have more than twice the amount of capital it needs to absorb losses.
The stampede was partly an attempt to reduce the amount of capital banks needed to reserve against possible losses on such bonds, as well as an effort to avoid the wrath of risk-averse investors, executives say.
Regulators say holding back a small amount of customer cash would decrease the amount of capital that firms would have to hold in reserve and compare the idea to a minimum account balance required by banks.
Shareholders, debt holders and regulators need to be able to size up the amount of capital the bank is targeting, how this compares to the minimum and how much capital is currently available on the balance sheet.
The FSB is a regulatory taskforce for the G20 nations, which oversaw the drafting of Basel III rules that will triple the amount of capital banks must hold compared with their capitalization during the 2007-09 financial crisis.
Under proposed new international rules, due to come in at the end of 2006, the amount of capital that banks will have to set aside to cover loans to other banks will depend on the borrowers' credit ratings.
It has made a number of assumptions about the parameters that would be used by the European Banking Authority for determining the amount of capital that would need to be injected into banks, to protect them against potential future losses.
What is important, however, is that the amount of capital relative to gross assets that Vickers wanted for very big banks was significantly higher than the proposed new internationally agreed leverage backstop, enshrined in the Basel lll rules, of 3%.
Corker, a member of the Banking Committee who had been negotiating with Dodd on behalf of the Republicans, said in a statement Thursday, The current bill would remove swap desks from commercial banks, lowering the amount of capital available for actual lending.
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