One of the most dramatic changes to the banking industry since the financial crisis is the rollout of new capital requirements for banks. Banks today are required to hold higher levels of capital, ...

The capital-to-asset ratio calculates a company's assets and capital to determine whether there is enough capital to cover the assets, expressed as a percentage. Useful to regulators, business ...

With much of the heavy lifting to bolster European banks’ capital ratios done, regulatory attention has shifted toward the risk-weighting of assets, write David Brierley and Vivien Mae Romo of SNL ...

Andy Smith is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®), licensed realtor and educator with over 35 years of diverse financial management experience. He is an expert on personal finance, corporate finance ...

The nation's largest banking companies expect their risk-weighted assets to balloon under Basel III, but none believe they will have to sell additional stock to shore up their capital ratios. Instead, ...

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters Breakingviews) - It’s time for bank regulators to get heavy on risk weighting. The financial and euro zone crises have shown the drawbacks of using banks’ home-grown models ...

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% ...