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, ...

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) ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Friday it will tighten rules on how banks calculate risk weighted assets to help insulate the financial sector from risk and bring ...

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% ...

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 ...

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

Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a massive and surprisingly ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Three federal agencies plan to strengthen the leverage ratio standards of the nation's biggest banks, in a new regulation that would go into effect in 2018. The Office of the ...