What counts as bank capital?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon May 3 08:59:52 PDT 1999


Michael Pollak wrote:


>That is to say, when the Basle Accord requires that banks should have
>capital equal to 8% of their risk assets, what counts as a non-risk asset?

Government bonds, basically.

Doug



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