Advocates credit stricter requirements for teenage drivers in place since 2009, including a law allowing drivers under the age of 21 to carry only one passenger.
The government has also imposed a clutch of new taxes on lending and stricter reserve requirements.
It is set to recommend stricter capital requirements for British banks than those being imposed elsewhere.
BDC, with its stricter disclosure requirements, is not the drastic step it would once have been.
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Bankers fear new regulations might impose stricter provisioning requirements for their doubtful loans.
Mounting bad loans and stricter provisioning requirements are already eating into the banks' profits and wiping out a large portion of their equity.
As banks in Europe and America scrabble to meet stricter capital requirements, made necessary by the failures of their own exotic lending practices, Mexico is offering some a lifeline.
To get there, it called for changes in how Medicare and Medicaid pay for mental health services, stricter licensing requirements for health workers, and for the government to fund appropriate training programs.
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The banking regulator announced stricter capital-adequacy requirements in September.
All the measures that regulators are putting in place to try to make banks safer, such as higher capital requirements, stricter regulation and limits on risk-taking, need to be tested against a simple question.
But following the November fire at Tazreen, where clothes made for Wal-Mart were found, the retailer issued a stricter set of supplier guidelines on safety requirements for Bangladesh.
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These categories have different requirements, and a few impose stricter rules if organizations want to claim tax-exempt status.
The Olympus affair is likely to set in train a fairly thorough and far-reaching strengthening and tightening of Japanese codes of conduct, laws and regulations, and criminal and civil remedies to deal with false financial reporting, non-disclosure, and due diligence requirements for company auditors, and stricter and more intrusive regulation by government agencies and securities exchanges.
And some people are unable to take advantage of the low mortgage rates, either because they can't qualify for stricter lending rules or they lack the money for larger down payment requirements.
Banks must already adhere to stricter underwriting standards for credit cards and mortgage loans and will soon face higher capital and liquidity requirements.
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