Sentence examples for rules bank from inspiring English sources

My Hungarian-Czech grandmother, an otherwise goodhearted and generous woman, had a notoriously lax attitude toward property rules: bank pens, ashtrays, and hospital slippers all were fair for the taking.

Under accounting rules, banks must carry securities on their books at market prices.

Under Basel 2 rules banks would then have to set aside more capital relative to their assets.

Under American accounting rules, banks can ignore some assets that do not show up on their balance sheet.

As regulators complete new mortgage rules, banks are about to get a significant advantage: protection against homeowner lawsuits.

After Iceland loosened its financial rules, banks began to take on more debt to finance their growth.

Under the rules, banks have a choice of three ways to report the value of identical securities.

Each of the foreign assets had a different set of ownership rules, banking covenants and legal restrictions.

"In trying to dodge the rules, banks created a second and poorly capitalised banking system," says Francisco González, chairman and chief executive of BBVA.

The increase is much larger than it appears because under the new rules banks must hold at least 7% in equity, the gold standard of capital.

Under those rules, banks must hold lesser or greater amounts of capital against assets, depending on the supposed risks they pose.