capital ratio

If it spent all that money, capital ratios would fall too low.

But capital ratios are a pretty poor idea, when everything is working fine.

Can see where you are coming from and increasing capital ratios at the banks is a good idea.

Not to mention how it might affect the capital ratios.

The company also plans to improve its debt to capital ratio further, to 0.5.

A big enough increase in required capital ratios is not conceivable.

The country's largest banks averaged a Tier-1 capital ratio of 8.8 percent in the first quarter.

But constraints on bank lending have more to do with capital ratios, not the cost of funds.

The Federal agency said that capital ratios of the nation's credit unions averaged 9.8 percent.

It has a capital ratio of over 7 percent and virtually no goodwill."

"Some work has to be done by banking institutions in order to improve their capital ratios.

Some 150 banks with assets of $926 billion have capital ratios between 3 and 6 percent.

A dispute over capital ratios had held up approval of the single banking license plan.

"I would be perfectly happy to see banks' capital ratios falling.

A company that is highly geared has a high debt-to-equity capital ratio.

The accord requires banks to increase their capital ratios when they face greater risks.

This had the effect of helping the banks maintain regulatory minimum capital ratios.

As a result, the common ratio will always be less than or equal to the total capital ratio.

Since then, the banks have raised their capital ratios through retained earnings and by selling new stock.

Although such ploys help to boost banks' capital ratios, they do not bring in new cash.

As all of these changes would take place within the group, it would have no impact on the equity capital ratios.

The only wiggle room we have is how fast we make them increase their capital ratios.

Many companies have capital ratios - equity as a percentage of assets - of 6 to 7 percent.

By contrast, Boatmen's, with an 8.22 percent capital ratio, is among the best capitalized.

The bank holding company also said that its important primary and total capital ratios fell well below the minimum required by Federal regulators.