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

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.

That would be very difficult to manage without some form of capital account regulation.

Shadow banking is coming into the light new derivatives regulation is entering into force capital requirements are going to be higher structural reforms and resolution authority are reducing subsidies and investors and consumers are better protected.

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

When dealing with surges of potentially destabilizing capital inflows, capital controls are a no no, but something called prudential regulation is quite okay.

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.

The renamed Child Care Regulation outlines the minimum requirements that Out of School Care (OSC) operators must meet.

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.

In all the cases, the compliance of the bank activities with the requirements of the Regulation 5 was verified.

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

The design of optimal regulation has to take into account the intensity of competition in the different banking segments. For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.

Finally, any regulation in this area should recognize that capital account convertibility is not obligatory for the IMF s clients.

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.

Bankers never like tight regulation and they particularly do not appreciate being required to fund their operations with more equity relative to debt. In both good times and bad, their refrain is, We need lower capital requirements, meaning they should be allowed to borrow more.

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

Participant at a seminar on Capital Markets Development and Regulation at the International Law Institute (ILI), Washington, D.C., United States of America.

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.

For example, regulation to protect retail customers could, sometimes, be appropriate requirements for information disclosure could help overcome asymmetries of information between businesses and consumers.

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.

On the contrary, we should have learned from the crisis that financial markets need regulation, and that cross border capital flows are particularly dangerous.

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.

The occupational health and safety requirements for the work of pregnant women and women who are breastfeeding have been established by a Government Regulation of 2001.

Once again, governments are using subsidies, mandates, regulation, and capital investment to pick industrial winners and losers, rather than using a broad, even handed approach.

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.

Current negotiations for disciplines on domestic regulation, particularly in respect of qualification requirements and procedures, offer an opportunity to render market access commitments effective for developing countries.