Banks capital adequacy ratios were set globally, and, once set, remained fixed.

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

None of the major banks met even the Basel 1 standards for capital adequacy.

There seems to be little appetite for proposals to vary capital adequacy requirements counter cyclically.

Moreover, the use of mechanistic rules to determine capital adequacy has also inadvertently encouraged systemic imprudence.

The largest city on Hokkaido is its capital, Sapporo, which is also its only ordinance designated city.

Since high risk premiums on government bonds endanger the capital adequacy of banks, half a solution is not enough.

This ordinance, however, does not define emergency.

The recent agreement by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision on a new capital adequacy framework is another positive step.

Capital adequacy and liquidity risks should be assessed on a group level, rather than country by country how capital and risks are divided between countries is less important.

The Basel III agreement on capital adequacy and other recent reforms still have not ring fenced trade financing from these potential shocks.

Similarly, banks would have incentives to game capital adequacy requirements by manipulating how capital and assets are defined. Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

First, sovereign bonds held by banks are treated as risk free assets under EU rules for calculating banks solvency and capital adequacy levels.

Capital adequacy was a matter of judgment examiners would figure out how large a buffer a bank ought to have, taking into account its specific risks.

Many eurozone banks have made far less progress in strengthening their capital adequacy and liquidity than have American and British banks since the financial crisis erupted.

Where this is not possible, it means stringently restricting what they can do and imposing higher taxes and capital adequacy requirements, thereby helping level the playing field.

Some believe this was a participation in the ordinance of the sacrament.

Haldane rightly complained that banking regulation has evolved from a small number of very specific guidelines to mind numbingly complicated statistical algorithms for measuring risk and capital adequacy.

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Keeping those loans on the books would have meant that a bank would have had to incur a large capital adequacy provision and monitor the loans performance, at a cost to itself.

Current ultra low interest rates may be scaring people about the adequacy of future income.

Current ultra low interest rates may be scaring people about the adequacy of future income.

In a bid to protect the personal privacy of Hong Kong citizens, the government has enacted several ordinances, including the Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance in 1995 and the Interception of Communications and Surveillance Ordinance (ICSO) in 2006.

The objective of the Privacy Ordinance is to protect a person's right to keep their data private.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

According to the ordinance, every Hong Kong citizen should follow six data protecting principles when handling personal data.

The ordinance only regulates wiretapping, and the interception and surveillance of communications made through postal mail and the telephone.

Mak also argues that the ordinance regulating interception and surveillance, the ICSO, should include professional privileges for journalistic work.

That means breaking up too important to fail (or too complex to fix) institutions. Where this is not possible, it means stringently restricting what they can do and imposing higher taxes and capital adequacy requirements, thereby helping level the playing field.

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Meanwhile, legislators have said they will work to transform the controversial anti pornography bill into a more targeted anti smut ordinance.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data is an independent statutory body which oversees the enforcement of the Privacy Ordinance.

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For example, the Andhra Pradesh state government passed a restrictive ordinance making it difficult for microfinance institutions to recover their loans from their clients.

The eruption of street protests in February contesting the Government s decision to adopt an Emergency Ordinance were viewed largely as a reaction to corruption.

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