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CEBS said the test's 6% Tier One capital ratio threshold should by no means be interpreted as a regulatory minimum.

HSBC is in the unusual position of having a huge cushion of capital and its tier one ratio is now at its highest levels for two decades.

Everyone knew that Samsung intended to be a tier-one company and would dedicate all necessary resources to achieve that status.

It aligns us with a leading global diversified miner with superb tier one assets and a track record of innovation.

A bill passed by this year's legislative session commits the state to help no fewer than seven tier-two universities reach tier-one status.

The wafer producer noted that the expansions were to keep pace with tier-one customers' expansion requests.

The current definition of tier one capital is the reason why all the German Landesbanken have passed the tests.

Earlier in the week, she said she would like France's lenders to achieve a tier one ratio of 9 per cent.

Falling stock prices, though, caused unrealised losses, which now have to be deducted from tier one capital.

Avic 1 said that it was seeking to establish itself as a "major international tier one structural supplier" to the world aerospace industry.

The reform package, known as Basel III, includes a new minimum core tier one ratio for banks worldwide.

It also shrinks the tier-one capital that they hold as a cushion against further losses, constraining their ability to lend.

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Similarly, manufacturers will be transformed into tier one suppliers and builders will become the assemblers .

The leverage of the U. S. and EU financial systems was 13 times tier-one capital before the crisis broke.

The removal of Trups from tier one capital amounts to such an event, lawyers say.

Judged by tier-one capital, a common measure of adequacy, America's ten biggest banks by assets appear in reasonable shape.

This suggests the new stress test should target "equity tier-one" capital, which strips out preference stock.

Bill: We start with a major advertising blitz in tier one cities.

Lehman Brothers singles out American Axle, Lear and Tenneco as most vulnerable among GM's tier one suppliers.

"They are gradually picking up tier one partners, " and Sony Ericsson is one more feather in Microsoft's cap, he says.

Equally, in normal circumstances goodwill and intangibles in tier one are genuine assets.

The widest definition of capital for regulatory purposes includes both tier one and tier two capital.

Tier one is common and preferred equity as well as any disclosed reserves.

But all three are still counted among the 12 biggest banks in the world by tier-one capital, albeit at a lower rank than in 2007.

Shirley's worries were not unwarranted: Her score was just 573, good enough for college but not a top-tier one.

It has also raised $6bn in equity and now boasts an eye-catching tier one capital ratio of more than 16 per cent.

Meanwhile, some banks have tier one ratios way below those of the 11 per cent levels of China Trust and Fubon.

Under the original 1988 Basel 1 rules governing bank capital, the bulk of banks' tier-one capital had to be common equity.

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Their shareholdings as a percentage of tier-one capital range from just below 50% to above 60% (see chart).

If mark-to-market rules are applied, global financial sector losses are estimated to amount to 85% of tier-one capital.

The question for banks is: do you want to keep paying high interest rates knowing that Trups are going to lose their status as tier one?

It brags of a tier-one (core) capital ratio of 10. 4%, giving it some $50 billion more than the minimum regulators consider safe.

Japanese banks must deduct a percentage of certain unrealized losses from their shareholdings from their tier-one capital.

Canada's TSX-V market has 3 tiers: Tier One for larger venture companies, Tier Two for smaller ones, and NEX for cash shells.

However, the quality of their tier-one capital has crumbled.

Its core, tier-one capital, at 6. 2%, looks low, but the reduced dividend may help shore it up.

Typically, their ratios of tier-one capital to risk-weighted assets exceed 10% (see chart).

The average tier-one ratio, which measures capital based on the riskiness of bank assets, stood at 8% in the first half of the year.

And there are tier one standouts, like Colombia, Nicaragua and Georgia.

Average tier one capital adequacy is 9. 5 or higher than counterparts in Spain, Germany and Italy.

This year it hawked the family silver: the sale of Barclays Global Investors will lift its core tier one capital ratio to 8. 8 per cent.

On the Basel I measure used by the Fed, Goldman's tier one ratio falls to 13. 8 per cent.

The reform package not only requires more capital but also tightens the definition of what counts toward core tier one -capital.

Its ratio of equity to tier-one capital will rise from 7% to 8. 5% if the rights issue is completed.

But whereas Wells reported a fourth quarter tier one common equity ratio of 8. 4 per cent, Goldman's was 13 per cent.

Suppose they had to hit JPMorgan's equity tier-one ratio of 6. 4%.

Indeed, it could absorb $30bn of losses and still retain a tier one capital ratio of 7. 5 per cent.

The move will boost its tier one ratio by 157 basis points to 8. 32 per cent.

For example, three of the world's top 10 banks in tier one capital terms are Chinese.