A bank’s capital adequacy ratio measures its capital buffer as a proportion of risk‑adjusted credit exposures. The capital adequacy ratio (CAR) expresses how much capital a bank holds compared to its ...

European bank balance sheets are shrinking. Barclays Capital analysts note first-quarter declines at 15 of the 25 largest quoted banks in Europe, with banks reporting on average balance sheets 3% ...

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Amid expectations of rate cuts, capital-rich Singapore banks can optimize their capital structures by issuing debt rather ...

Burdened with massive NPLs, many banks have been facing a serious crisis, failing to carry out their daily operations.

The operational risk component of the agencies' capital proposal could not possibly pass any cost-benefit analysis, write Grag Baer and Francisco Covas, of Bank Policy Institute. If the capital rule ...