Banks must hold capital to reduce the risk of bank failure. Risk is assigned to all assets held by a bank in order to ...

European bank balance sheets are shrinking. Barclays Capital analysts note first-quarter declines at 15 of the 25 largest quoted banks in Europe, with banks reporting on average balance sheets 3% ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's two biggest banks, Sberbank and VTB, experienced a sharp rise in higher-risk-weighted exposures during the three months to the end of September, data from their ...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - Morgan Stanley expanded its risk-weighted asset reduction target, a move that will help the Wall Street bank's capital levels under new rules and potentially boost shareholder ...

• The Basel Accords are a set of rules on banking regulations in regards to capital • Basel III is a series of additions to the existing accords designed to limit the likelihood and impact of a future ...

Equity investment risk-weighted assets (RWAs) at Saudi National Bank (SNB) jumped 18.2% in the fourth quarter of 2025 to a record 99.2 billion riyals ($26.4 billion), following an increase in ...