Like other banks, Deutsche also argues that a simple leverage ratio is not much use in assessing the risks that lenders take.
Tom Hoenig, the vice-chairman of America's Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, has called for regulators to apply a simple leverage ratio, so that banks hold a minimum amount of equity against their total assets without any mathematical chicanery.Yet if regulators entirely abandon risk weights, banks may just load up with the riskiest and highest-yielding loans.
As a matter of simple leverage, a vehicle with a long wheelbase is more stable when towing.
Tarang Shah is a former VC himself, having spent 4.5 years at SoftBank Capital, and he tells us that his mission was simple: Leverage his connections in the VC world to offer a peek into knowledge that he says has thus far really remained in a "black box".
In terms of simple leverage, the bank has just €1 in equity backing every €38 of assets.
To have real leverage, you have to be willing to use it, and, in that sense, China does not have the kind of simple leverage that American officials sometimes imagine.
The concept is simple: leverage Google's expertise in infrastructure, search and relevance to connect users with content created by developers like you.
The goals of the company are simple: Leverage new platforms (especially the iPhone) to replace outdated audio wands as content delivery tools.
Regarding the amount of leverage in the financial system -- the ratio of liabilities to equity -- which skyrocketed during the go-go years, leading to an eventual crisis, Hoenig said Congress "should require that we come up with simple leverage ratio that can be... understood and enforced.
We have demonstrated a simple approach to leveraging multiple gene expression datasets to increase the robustness of inferred links between genes, by focusing on links supported by multiple gene expression datasets.
