Discover what a high capital adequacy ratio means for banks, how it's calculated, and its significance for banking stability.

Discover the differences between Tier 1 and Tier 2 capital, their roles in banking, and how they ensure financial stability.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's two biggest banks, Sberbank and VTB, experienced a sharp rise in higher-risk-weighted exposures during the three months to the end of September, data from their ...

Background. As part of an international effort to recalibrate how banks calculate their risk‑based capital, U.S. bank regulatory agencies (the “Agencies”) recently proposed major changes to how banks ...

Risk-weighted assets (RWAs): Risk-weights are assigned to assets according to estimates of the risk of those The higher the estimated risk, the higher the risk-weight factor and the greater the ...

Banks aren't using the right models to calculate risk-weighted assets, and are thus coming up with skewed results and using them to determine their Tier 1 ratios. That's Jamie Dimon's (NYSE:JPM) ...

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% ...

Synovus Financial (NYSE:SNV) said it expects to reduce risk weighted assets ("RWA") by ~$2.0B-$2.4B in Q2, which will result in a marginal increase in its common equity tier 1 ratio of ~40-50 basis ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - In 2011, senior executives at JPMorgan Chase & Co told one of the bank's trading and hedging groups to scale back its riskier positions as new regulations would make these bets ...

TOKYO, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Nomura Holdings 8604.T said on Wednesday it would reduce risk weighted assets by up to 6% and make additional cost cuts in its wholesale business as the top Japanese ...