Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 February 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

Mr. Mario Nava:

At those times the overall ratio was 8%, both before and after Basel III, but before Basel III the 8% was more generously calculated by a composition of the core tier 1, which needed to be only 4% and tier 2. The great reform of Basel III was exactly to increase the amount of capital that can unequivocally and in any moment absorb losses.

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