Their maxim for the past couple of years has been simple: the higher the capital ratio – specifically equity as a proportion of risk-weighted assets – the better.

过去两三年里，他们有一句很简短的口头禅：资本比例——具体地说就是股本对风险加权资产的比例——越高越好。

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A minimum ratio of capital to assets should possibly be imposed by the Fed on investment Banks and money funds.

美联储很可能会给投资银行和货币基金制订一个资本最低比率的下限。

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The German Banks, even Deutsche bank, look particularly thinly capitalised when the test disclosures are used to calculate a simple leverage ratio of capital to total assets.

德国的银行甚至德意志银行不那么看重资本而是用测试来计算资本与总资产之间的杠杆率。

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The aggregate tier one common capital ratio - assets held in reserve as a buffer against financial troubles - would fall from an actual 11.1% in the third quarter of 2012 to 7.7% in the fourth quarter of 2014 in the hypothetical stress scenario.

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On the one hand, the ratio of capital to assets would be boosted very significantly in "good" RBS, because some loans and investments with very high risk weights (in the jargon) would have been detached.

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Leverage is the ratio of capital to liabilities (or to assets perhaps) but it is not, never has been and never will be any ratio of assets to umm, assets, as is being claimed here.

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