15 Percent Tier 1 Leverage: Undercapitalized?

Law360, New York (December 19, 2011, 6:01 PM EST) -- Managing the Tier 1 capital ratio, or leverage ratio, is a key pillar of successful banking. Maintaining an excessively elevated Tier 1 ratio will in most instances produce an underleveraged balance sheet that results in operating losses.[1] If you sanction excessive capital erosion, your federal and state bank regulators will be howling while subjecting your bank to the strictures of prompt corrective action....

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