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

The United States is emphasizing higher capital requirements.

We have significantly lower capital costs in our plant equipment.

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.

Technical options for waste water treatment range from capital intensive conventional treatment systems to alternative systems with lower capital costs.

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.

South African firms have used their relatively lower cost of capital to invest in other African countries where capital markets were not developed.

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.

The unspent balance of 20,000 is attributable to lower requirements under the maintenance of information technology equipment.

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 lower requirements resulted mainly from overestimation of the cost for the deployment travel of civilian police officers.

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

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 additional requirements of 2,600 relate to the acquisition of three laptops purchased during the period for the training sessions offset by lower requirements for the maintenance of information technology equipment.

Requirements were also lower than anticipated under maintenance services for laundry, catering, waste disposal and for perimeter fencing and gates.

Better repayment prospects and lower regulatory capital costs then fuel the asset based financing of further acquisition of assets.

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.

The unspent balance was due primarily to lower requirements than budgeted for spare parts, petrol, oil and lubricants and liability insurance.

The decreased requirements also reflect lower than projected requirements under (a) rental and maintenance of premises ( 56,000) (b) miscellaneous services ( 5,400) (c) freight related costs ( 36,500) and (d) third party liability insurance ( 16,300).

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.

The net decrease of 25,200 is attributable mainly to lower requirements in other staff costs based on the current pattern of expenditure.

With a lower capital stock, output would trend downward, reducing government revenues and substantially offsetting the direct gain from the tax.

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.

According to conventional wisdom, the corporate tax burden is borne principally by the owners of capital in the form of lower returns.

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.

To the extent that some of the lower cost is rebated to their clients, even industrial firms in Germany enjoy a lower cost of capital, giving them an unfair advantage vis à vis their European competitors.