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

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 United States is emphasizing higher capital requirements.

Smarter capital requirements better Basel rules aren t the answer.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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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.

For starters, the Basel III package of global banking reforms and the European Union s corresponding Capital Requirements Directive IV rule create disincentives for cross border financing.

Higher equity capital requirements for banks are good for the broader economy they make financial crises (and the zombie syndrome) less likely, less severe, or both.

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.

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

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

Instead, the reform proposals have opted for a mixture of higher capital requirements for leading banks and pre funding of deposit insurance by a special levy on banks.

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.

But it makes the case for novel measures, including guidance ranges for asset prices and targeted variation of margin and capital requirements, to help dampen such excessive price movements.

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.

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

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

They will need to strengthen international guidelines for capital requirements for large multinational banks and address the perverse financial incentives that led to irresponsible risk taking in the financial sector.

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.

Banks serve a special function in the economy that does warrant a special role for the government not in setting pay, but in imposing effective capital requirements.

And, clearly, the idea that capital requirements were not needed for banks off balance sheet activities (because the banks were not bearing the risk), was simply wrong.

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

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

Mexico, for example, recently adopted ahead of schedule the changes in capital requirements for banks recommended by the Third Basel Accord (Basel III), in order to reduce leverage and increase stability.

Some countries will opt for greater stability, imposing tough capital and liquidity requirements on their banks, while others may favor greater innovation and adopt a lighter regulatory touch.