These new requirements include the creation of a capital conservation buffer above the minimums, which if breached will restrict firms' ability to pay dividends or buy back stock.

这些新的要求包括在最低标准之上建立一个资本金储备的缓冲带，如果金融机构违反此规定，将限制该机构分红或者回购股份的能力。

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Basel III additional capital buffers are: a mandatory capital conservation buffer of 2.5% and a discretionary counter-cyclical buffer.

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They will have to add to that a "counter cyclical" capital conservation buffer of 2.5%, meaning capital reserves will in the coming years have to represent 7% of their loans and investments.

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As part of the package of new standards, banks will be required to increase their minimum common equity requirement from 2% to 4.5%, and will additionally have to hold a capital conservation buffer of 2.5%, "to withstand future periods of stress, " the Basel Committee said in a press release.

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