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, ...

Learn how risk-weighted assets are used to determine solvency ratio requirements under the Basel III accord, and see how ...

Banks aren't using the right models to calculate risk-weighted assets, and are thus coming up with skewed results and using them to determine their Tier 1 ratios. That's Jamie Dimon's (NYSE:JPM) ...

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Friday it will tighten rules on how banks calculate risk weighted assets to help insulate the financial sector from risk and bring ...

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% ...

WASHINGTON — Jeremiah Norton, a board member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., said Wednesday that regulators should consider proposing a stronger leverage ratio for banks to help protect the ...

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 ...