Excessive leverage by banks is widely believed to have contributed to the global financial crisis. To address this, the international community has proposed the adoption of a non-risk-based capital measure, the leverage ratio, as an additional prudential tool to complement minimum capital adequacy requirements. Its adoption can reduce the risk of excessive leverage building up in individual entities and in the financial system as a whole. The leverage...
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D'Hulster,Katia.
The leverage ratio (English). Crisis response note ; no. 11 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/260961468158726436