The overall capital adequacy ratio of the commercial banks improved to reach 18.5 percent in 2005.

Capital adequacy ratio A measure of a bank's ability to absorb losses.

It focussed on issues like size of banks and capital adequacy ratio among other things.

Many financial institutions in Europe also faced the liquidity problem that they needed to raise their capital adequacy ratio.

The situation in the banking sector is further complicated by the fact that bad debts are undermining capital adequacy ratios.

In early 2003 the Resona Group's capital adequacy ratio fell dangerously low.

The bank had proposed to maintain its capital adequacy ratio above the legal limit by factoring in deferred tax assets.

A result will be to lower their capital adequacy ratios, forcing the banks to adopt stricter standards in approving new mortgages.

The capital augmentation will serve to improve the Capital adequacy ratio of the Bank in 2011-12.

Capital adequacy ratio remained strong at 19 percent, while the liquidity ratio was 55 percent.

Its capital adequacy ratio, a benchmark of the bank's ability to absorb losses, is nearly twice that of other large banks in Japan.

But its capital adequacy ratio, a crucial barometer of its health, will remain low compared to its international peers.

Capital adequacy ratio is defined as:

The consolidated capital adequacy ratio of Akbank, standing at approx 20% is among the highest ratios achieved in the sector.

This had an inevitable effect on their capital adequacy ratios and therefore their ability to lend ever-higher amounts that were necessary to support property prices.

Chemical's level of capital at the end of 1995 remained strong, with capital adequacy ratios well in excess of regulatory requirements.

Its capital adequacy ratio stood at 13.36 percent, well above the 8 percent yardstick established by the Bank for International Settlements for 1994.

The banks were taken over and recapitalised by the government because they had fallen below the Basel I Accord mandated eight percent capital adequacy ratio.

In most countries, the central bank (or other monetary authority) regulates bank credit creation, imposing reserve requirements and other capital adequacy ratios.

Revenue grew 20 percent, and the bank's capital adequacy ratio, a measure of its financial health, reached 20.6 percent, about twice as high as Japan's biggest banks.

Mr Ulyukaev brought some good news for the banking sector, however, noting that non-performing loans, capital adequacy ratios and liquidity are all extremely strong.

The money multiplier arises instead from capital adequacy ratios, i.e. the ratio of its capital to its risk-weighted assets.

Capital adequacy ratio is the ratio which determines the bank's capacity to meet the time liabilities and other risks such as credit risk, operational risk etc.

A low capital adequacy ratio suggests that a bank has a limited ability to absorb losses, given the amount and the riskiness of the loans it has made.

This sort of asset calculation is used in determining the capital requirement or Capital Adequacy Ratio (CAR) for a financial institution.