In forex trading, understanding how to manage risk is just as crucial as identifying potential profit opportunities. One of the key tools used by successful traders to balance risk and reward is the ...

Risk ratios. They’re at the core of every financial analysts’ research. And while there’s far too many of them for most non-finance people to use on a consistent basis, it could at least help to know ...

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Learn how risk-weighted assets are used to determine solvency ratio requirements under the Basel III accord, and see how capital requirements have increased.

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James Chessen makes a strong and fair point that adequate capital alone is not enough to ensure safety and soundness in the banking system ("Leverage Ratios: An Overly Simplistic Capital Measure," May ...

As a Jew I will be spending Dec. 25 at my local Chinese restaurant. This fact has made me think about, of all things, bank capital. One can eat Chinese food elegantly with two chopsticks. With only ...

It's 3:00 AM. Through the open window of this crackhouse hotel in San Francisco, I can hear the police siren drawing closer, like a noose. There's a half-empty bottle of scotch on the table next to my ...

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When Bobby Axelrod on the hit show Billions went to an institutional investor to raise funds for Axe Capital, the investor brought up a problem: “My people have a few questions. Your Sharpe ratio’s ...