"We don't have the capital base to do it, " concedes banking chief Mitchell Caplan.
"We don't have the capital base to do it, " concedes Mitchell Caplan, the banking chief.
Might the German banks have 32 times their capital base in either assets or liabilities?
Many firms need a flexible capital base to expand one reason the partnership model in banking declined.
Still, HSBC insists that the charge is a "pure accounting item" that will not affect its capital base.
They only need to lose 5% of their assets to wipe out their capital base and thus go bankrupt.
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But the insurers' capital base is now so thin that they may not be able to pay any claims.
In Merrill Lynch's case, these commitments far exceed the bank's capital base although they also include safe loans to blue-chip companies.
That is why the Fund is likely to get an increase in its capital base at the Hong Kong meeting.
This also raises some cash to shore up the its reserves which could allay some analysts concerns about its capital base.
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" Pandit also reaffirmed his committment to stabilizing Citi's capital base and said he is still looking at "non-core assets and businesses.
The brokerage house recorded a wider than expected loss for the second quarter and announced asset sales to shore up its capital base.
Saving is what rebuilds the capital base so that new ideas with the potential to boost the economy can be matched with credit.
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Range has a great position in the Marcellus shale of Pennsylvania but not a big enough capital base to develop its assets effectively.
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So for example, banks or other institutions which were exposed to subprime lending would still see their capital base depleted and their shareholders wiped out.
I'd rather be with a company that has a strong capital base and the diversity of income by products and regions than one that doesn't.
She will be prepared to see EU funds diverted to major infrastructure projects and to see the capital base of the European Investment Bank expanded.
Seeing their own capital base eroded and their borrowing costs soar, banks are far less willing to lend to any company that is faintly risky.
Gradually, the strictures on capital ratios laid down in Basel III will force the broadening of that capital base, at the expense of potential remuneration pools.
Last week they got a temporary boost when world central banks announced a coordinated effort to shore up the capital base of select troubled European banks.
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The CEBS stresses that variable remuneration "should not pose detriment to the timely building up of capital base" nor, where applicable, to the timely exit from government support.
Accel was able to repay the entire capital base of one fund just by selling a sliver of its Facebook stake to Andreessen Horowitz and others last year.
In other words, it has a capital base of 4.5%.
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The banks have slowly rebuilt their capital base and if the economy continues this gradual progression then we can expect lending to begin....but again....it's expected to be slow.
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There are some banks that have seen the increase in the savings rate and higher deposits give them a pretty good capital base, but they're still constrained by some regulatory restraints.
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So far, winning deals in the Middle East seems to depend in larger part on the political astuteness and lobbying skills of oil bosses than on the size of their capital base.
All he needs is a stronger capital base.
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"Over the past several years, we have rebuilt Citi's capital base and strengthened our balance sheet as well as shed assets and businesses not core to our strategy, " said Michael Corbat, Citi's CEO since October.
JPMorgan would be picking up WaMu's customer deposits and in this rapidly changing banking world everyone is in agreement that the important thing is the capital base with customer deposits being an important part of that.
Part of the reason is that a strong capital base and a liquid balance sheet--HSBC has one of the strongest Tier 1 ratios out of the big banks--is something the company has never parted from, Green says.
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