At a minimum, proprietary trading ought to be financed by banks own capital.

Rather, the banking system is at the brink of insolvency, with a permanent loss in equity capital.

The main advantages of the Group concern the strong competitive position, high level of equity and high effectiveness of business activity.

They will continue to deprive the banking system of its equity capital, with little chance of it being recouped in the near future.

The lack of equity resulted largely from the concept of limited liability, which provided an incentive for excessive leveraging.

Small scale entrepreneurs lack collateral security for loans, or equity, or both.

Corporations, moreover, are holding the largest amounts of cash, relative to assets and net worth, ever recorded.

Some banks have been severely affected by mounting overdue payments, and their net worth is now negative.

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I am convinced that we need an overall cap on leverage on banks balance sheets, regardless of risk asset weightings or value at risk measurements. The fact that equity to asset ratios are currently averaging out at about 3 tells you everything that you need to know about the inadequacy of the current pro cyclical capital requirement framework.

The fact that equity to asset ratios are currently averaging out at about 3 tells you everything that you need to know about the inadequacy of the current pro cyclical capital requirement framework.

Banks would scale down their balance sheets in proportion to their reported equity losses and exacerbate the credit crunch from which the world is already suffering today.

As many SMEs have a thin equity position, a bank nor mally prefers that its borrowers transfer profits to equity.

Regulators have proposed steep hikes a Bank of England study, for example, suggested a more than three fold increase.

Lack of equity capital, in turn, made risk averse shareholders hire gamblers to manage their limited liability investment companies.

As a result, commercial providers of debt or equity cannot get the high returns and quick exits that they seek.

UNOPS provides start up funds from its administrative budget only in order to leverage the first one or two projects.

Thereafter, the earnings from these projects serve to leverage additional projects and to replenish the administrative budget.

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One post in the middle of August (when the Bank s top cats were certainly away, allowing free rein to the mice) pointed to some of the weaknesses in banks internal capital models, which are at the heart of the Basel 3 capital requirements regime.

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One is in the valuation of natural capital stocks, an exercise that involves the combination of physical data from resource management agencies with economic data from statistical agencies.

To stem this trend, the emerging economies of North Africa, as well as those of Eastern Europe, need to develop homegrown human capital by raising their populations' skill levels.

Deeper European integration, stricter equity requirements for banks, and deeper but homegrown structural reforms are certainly key elements of any solution.

The US financial institutions that went bankrupt in 2008 or that would have gone bankrupt without government help were in trouble because they lacked equity capital.

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And yet, despite what pundits claim about strong balance sheets, firms debt levels, relative to assets and net worth, also remain near record high levels.