The phrase "adequacy rules" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to standards, regulations, or criteria that determine whether something meets a certain level of quality or sufficiency.
Example: "The adequacy rules established by the regulatory body ensure that all products meet safety and performance standards before they can be sold to consumers."
Alternatives: "sufficiency criteria" or "standards of adequacy".
But those proposals fell by the wayside and were replaced with plans for tighter capital adequacy rules.
A.I.G.'s first-quarter report said "it remains to be seen" which capital adequacy rules would be used in different parts of Europe.
Regulators may need to abandon the traditional, mechanistic link between accounting and capital adequacy rules if they really want to try to fight banking crises.
Eager to avoid a credit crunch before the election, Mr. Steinbrück failed to persuade his European Union peers last week to suspend bank capital adequacy rules, pending changes due this year.
A.I.G. had hoped these swaps would become obsolete at the end of 2009, when European banking was to have completed its adoption of a detailed new set of capital adequacy rules, known as Basel II.
Agus Martowardojo, the central bank governor, is credited with minimising the fallout of the US Federal Reserve's decision to wind back its monetary stimulus through currency swaps with other regional central banks and stricter capital adequacy rules for the country's lenders.
She is also squaring up for a fight over capital-adequacy rules.
National regulators pressing for easier capital-adequacy rules for lending in their jurisdictions would be viewed with suspicion.
They include improving the financial system (by implementing Basel 3 capital-adequacy rules), fighting climate change, promoting free trade and curbing corruption.It makes dismal reading, in places.
Capital-adequacy rules could be set using other risk measures, such as the spreads at which securities actually trade in the markets.
And with credit ratings enshrined in investment-fund mandates and bank capital-adequacy rules, some investors may continue to treat them as semi-official judgments.
