The banks must assess whether they can maintain a Tier-1 capital ratio of 5% under a hypothetical economic scenario that includes America's unemployment rate reaching 13%.
Harwood notes that achieving the highest level of PCI compliance protects a merchant against credit card fraud but that advantage is off-set against the cost of achieving and maintaining top tier PCI compliance.
ESAs offer payments to landowners in return for maintaining ('low tiers') or enhancing ('high tiers') the landscape, biodiversity and historic value of the land.
We suggest the STRING database team to divide the organisms included in the database into several tiers for tier-1 organisms, frequent updates should be maintained; for tier-2 organisms, maybe less frequent updates are needed; and so on.
But their agreement with the bank is to maintain a top tier rate, and the bank has.
BNP insisted on Thursday that it could maintain a core tier one ratio – an important measure of financial strength – of 9% by January 2013 even if it sustained losses through the eurozone crisis.
Seth Miller, a freelance technology consultant in Manhattan, is one of the elite frequent fliers airlines have been courting, having maintained top-tier platinum status in Continental's OnePass program for 10 years.
Even though the TV is super-duper crazy thin, it still maintains top-tier specs: 1080p, 120Hz, and edge-lit LED backlighting.
Only Dorchester, Ferndown, Wimborne and Purbeck maintain a three-tier system (first, middle and high school), although Purbeck is expected to switch to a two-tier system by 2013 because of an excess of unfilled places.
Firstly, under the guidance of Nigel Pearson, the Foxes staged the most miraculous of escapes to maintain their top-tier status.
For the case of macrocell tier, to maintain the total coverage area after switching off some BSs, we adopt the fixed power control policy [11] and assume that all active MBSs transmit with power β m P, where β m is the power control coefficient of MBS.
