Sentence examples for at a core tier from inspiring English sources

The threshold to pass the test was set at a core Tier 1 capital ratio, which encompasses safe assets, of 5 percent.

"We can't live on a sliver of a core tier one ratio," said Booker of the need to raise more capital.

The bank is also conservatively capitalized, with a core tier one capital ratio of 9.9%, which is well above its target range of 5.5%-9%.

It has built up a core tier 1 capital ratio - a measure of its security if it gets into financial trouble - of an unusually big 16%.

The capital exercise required a subset of European banks to reach and maintain a 9% core tier 1 capital ratio by the end of June 2012.

Regulators from the world's largest economies have proposed requiring banks to hold core tier one capital of at least 7 percent in order to absorb unexpected losses, but the rule would not take full effect until 2019.

The bank stressed that its crucial core tier 1 ratio – a measure of its financial strength – has doubled from 5.6% since the end of 2008 to 11%.

The bank said its so-called core tier one capital ratio, a measure of financial strength, was 7.6 percent at the end of the quarter, up from 7.5 percent at the end of the second quarter.

It was the only one to fall below the 4.5% minimum core tier one capital ratio – a key measure of financial strength – set by the Bank of England.

The Basel III capital rules are designed to increase the safety of the financial system by making banks build up risk-absorbent "core tier one" capital to at least 7percentt of risk-weighted assets.

Its crucial core tier one capital ratio was 9.5% at the end of September.