The Basle Committee’s proposed reforms of international bank capital standards suggest an increasing reliance on commercial credit ratings and internal bank risk ratings. These reforms, although ...

The European Central Bank has updated the capital buffer requirement (P2R) imposed on Municipality Finance Plc (MuniFin) as part of the yearly Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). The ...

Commercial banks will have to maintain capital adequacy ratio (CAR) of 11 per cent from mid-July, as Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the banking sector regulator, gears up to meet global banking standards in ...

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 ...

A bank needs to have enough money on hand to cover any losses it might make if any of the groups or individuals it has lent money defaults on their loans. If it does not, it may find itself unable to ...

The CET1 ratio for Woori Financial has increased YoY and QoQ in the recent quarter, but WF's CET1 ratio is still the lowest among the major Korean financial institutions. Woori Financial's future ...

Rising mortgage rates, lower homebuyer demand and fewer homeowners choosing to sell their homes caused the housing market to slow during the second half of 2022. In the title insurance industry this ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Is something rotten with the state of UK bank capital? The standard measure for capital adequacy compares a ...

The capital adequacy ratio of Korean insurance companies deteriorated in the first quarter of the year, data showed Friday. The average capital adequacy ratio of insurance firms stood at 223.6 percent ...