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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Having been burned by the crisis, banks have tightened their lending standards, and will now be subject to more stringent capital and liquidity requirements.

They have considerable flexibility, owing to a range of policy tools, including variable capital and reserve requirements and direct controls on mortgage lending terms.

The Basle rules on capital requirements and the World Trade Organization s rules on subsidies, intellectual property, and investment measures typify this kind of overreaching.

A fashionable approach was known as twin peaks, whereby one regulator handled prudential regulation setting capital requirements while another oversaw adherence to business rules.

For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.

There has been commendable progress on the Basel 3 capital requirements for banks, with 25 of 27 Basel Committee members having issued final rules.

In the Basel III negotiations that concluded last year, the French and Germans strongly favored relatively low capital requirements. This was folly for their big banks today, more capital would reduce the probability of needing further government bailouts.

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Bankers, who may really be worried about their own bonuses, warn that higher capital requirements will force them to curtail lending, thus impeding economic growth.

Though this environment may not be fundamentally at risk, the current trend towards increasing capital requirements for international banks reflected, for example, in calls for the establishment of independent subsidiaries with autonomous capital and liquidity pools is clearly worrisome.