The share placing, which is the equivalent of 4% of Standard Chartered's issued share capital, will raise the bank's core tier one ratio - a key measure of strength - from 7.6% to 8.4%.

这场股票配售的份额相当于渣打银行已发行股本的4%，这将提高渣打银行的一项银行实力的关键指标——核心资本充足率(core tier one ratio)，从7.6%提升至8.4%。

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Its ratio of equity to tier-one capital will rise from 7% to 8.5% if the rights issue is completed.

如果増股顺利完成，汇丰的权益资本占一级资本的比率将从7%上升到8.5%。

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The average tier-one ratio, which measures capital based on the riskiness of bank assets, stood at 8% in the first half of the year.

平均一级资本充足率——用以衡量银行资产风险水平的资本——在今年上半年刚好达到8%。

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And then it assumes the banks would need to preserve a core tier one ratio of either 7% or 8% on these stressed scenarios by the end of 2012.

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The minimum tier one capital ratio needed to pass the test is 5%.

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JPMorgan Chase ( JPM - news - people ), for example, finished 2009 with a tier one capital ratio of 11.1%, a figure it boasted about in a press release.

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