The best known tools for this are margin requirements and minimum capital requirements.

The United States is emphasizing higher capital requirements.

Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

That, in turn, avoids triggering requirements of more bank capital.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined.

Domestic financing covered only 25 per cent of capital investment requirements.

Counter cyclical capital requirements fit with this idea, and a range of indicators could be used to calibrate the increase in capital requirements, coupled perhaps with some discretion.

No working capital requirements have been included in this budget submission to leave room for other priority expenditure requirements.

At the source, capital requirements for currency mismatches in portfolios, together with margin requirements on foreign exchange derivatives, make sense.

And equity capital requirements for large, systemically important financial institutions remain too low.

WASHINGTON, DC European leaders are convinced that bank capital is expensive, in the sense that raising capital requirements would slow economic growth.

All this financial engineering would avoid the obsolete capital requirements that burden banks operation.

a Resource requirements for 1994 1995 are presented under capital expenditures (see sect. 29).

The proposed Basel III regulations set wholly insufficient minimum capital requirements and maintain a failed approach to adjusting the requirements to risk.

There have been some increases in capital requirements but far short of what is needed.

There seems to be little appetite for proposals to vary capital adequacy requirements counter cyclically.

(iii) Ability to save and generate capital investment in relation to requirements for infrastructure development

51. Two fundamental requirements for achieving sustainable development in the developing world were capital and technology.

The banks claim that higher capital requirements and other regulations will drive up the cost of credit.

This put financial capital in a privileged position governments had to pay more attention to the requirements of international capital than to the aspirations of their own people.

The capital requirements attached to that subsidiary would be more burdensome, with minimum Tier One capital set at 10 , compared to the new Basel 3 standard of 7 .

Banks will have to recognize the losses and, if necessary, find the additional capital to meet reserve requirements.

This is a mistake. The European Commission should have introduced capital requirements on banks holdings of public debt.

Total costs 12 979.2 a Resource requirements for 1994 1995 are presented under capital expenditures (see sect. 29).

(c) Assessment of human resource development and human capital formation requirements in the context of cross sectoral strategies

Over time, however, the interest rate premium is likely to be small, because higher capital requirements and contingent capital should significantly reduce the likelihood of ever reaching the triggers.

In the Basel III negotiations that concluded last year, the French and Germans strongly favored relatively low capital requirements.

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.

The remaining portion represents support costs and items budgeted centrally, including working capital and area staff salary increase requirements.

It has also analysed current and projected solid waste management requirements, including environmental protection for the capital city, Male.

High capital and provision requirements for certain transactions, or prohibition of such transactions, should also be introduced for prudential reasons.

Banks know that they face higher capital requirements, which will force them to scale back lending relative to their resources).

Combined with elevated capital requirements for banks, it would reduce the chance of another simultaneous failure of all credit channels.

Over the last two years, the Agency has built up a working capital reserve equal to one month's operational requirements.

On derivatives, there is now general agreement on how to approach trading, clearing, and transparency, but much more work to do on capital requirements, margin requirements, clearinghouse supervision, and other issues.

With respect to financial supervision, there has been increasing support since the crisis for countercyclical capital requirements, at least for banks.

If the US wants to place size limits and tighter capital requirements on banks, it should be free to do so.

For instance, we know that the global capital adequacy requirements produced by the Basel Committee reflect overwhelmingly the influence of large banks.

There are some international agreements, notably the Basel Accords on minimum capital requirements and there is also good cooperation among market regulators.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

Capital onion soup, capital.

There seems to be little appetite for proposals to vary capital adequacy requirements counter cyclically. This would enable capital buffers to be created in good years, which could then be drawn down in bad years.

Then they should come back to work and do their job properly, by phasing in much higher capital requirements in a responsible manner.

Working capital is measured through the difference between resources in cash or readily convertible into cash (Current Assets), and cash requirements (Current Liabilities).

The IPR commended efforts by the Government to amend the Investment Promotion Act so as to remove minimum capital requirements for foreign investors.