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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 financial system is a complex machine that must be kept well-oiled to function properly. Occasionally, regulations designed to enhance stability inadvertently throw sand in the gears.

Morgan Stanley expanded its risk-weighted asset reduction target, a move that will help the Wall Street bank's capital levels under new rules and potentially boost shareholder returns. Morgan Stanley ...

On 10 June 2021, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a preliminary proposed framework for the prudential treatment of cryptoasset exposures based on classification cryptoassets (the ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an ...

These alternatively weighted indices are based on three standard flagship MSCI indices and include the MSCI ACWI Risk Weighted Index, the MSCI Emerging Markets Risk Weighted Index and the MSCI World ...