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Europe's banks to have a minimum capital buffer of 9%, forcing them to find an extra €106bn by June 2012.

The Chancellor has gone against the advice of his own Independent Commission on Banking and set the minimum capital buffer for banks at 3 per cent of their total assets, rather than the recommended 4 per cent.

One way of doing that would be to increase the minimum capital buffers banks have to hold if the economy is overheating; another would be to cut the size of mortgages they are allowed to make.

Banks have certainly not joined hands to fight for a globally enforced increase in capital buffers (the minimum capital they are required to hold), which could help them absorb and survive severe losses.

Banks closer to the regulatory limit are less likely to finance their growth based only on debt issuances compared with banks with a capital buffer over the minimum because this financing would deteriorate their capital ratio even more.

Even in such a simple setting, minimum capital requirements consist of a time invariant component (gamma ^{R}) and of a time-varying counter-cyclical buffer capturing dynamic provisioning that we term (gamma _{t}^{U}).

Chop suey, phooey Jumping the gun Sweetened pill, no cure The bet collectors Small is beautiful The trouble with Ed A very British paradox ReprintsThe ICB's other headline proposal is that large British banks should have to hold bigger buffers against losses than currently proposed under Basel 3, a new international agreement on minimum capital requirements.

There are no minimum capital requirements.

How high are minimum capital requirements under Basel III?

As expected, the UK's banks are not deemed to need any extra capital buffer.

He insisted the capital buffer was adequate under the rules in place at the time.