Under risk-based standards, banks can boost their returns on equity by allocating capital to “safe” assets where regulators require lower levels of capital. Their ability to manipulate risk-based ...

A debt-to-equity ratio measures a company's financial leverage by comparing total liabilities to its shareholder equity. A higher debt-to-equity ratio is often associated with risk, while lower ...

To effectively reflect these quality characteristics, the S&P Quality Indices utilize three key metrics: return on equity (ROE), balance sheet accruals ratio (BSA) and financial leverage ratio ...

Those worries should disappear now that AT&T has finally reached its target leverage ratio. It has the flexibility to start returning more cash to investors, which it initially plans to do by ...

Many factors have contributed to a downward trend in midstream leverage ratios. This note looks at 2024 leverage ratios for ...

The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) has published final Basel III guidelines requiring banks to meet strict liquidity and capital ...

Furthermore, the amendment alters the financial covenants of the agreement, increasing the maximum Total Net Leverage Ratio permitted as of the last day of any fiscal quarter to 4.75:1.00.