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S&P Global Market Intelligence: With leverage ratios firmed up, attention turns to RWA density

Much heavy lifting has already been done to raise European banks’ capital ratios, as a new analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence shows —data drawn from 30 European banks, both eurozone and non-eurozone, shows that these institutions reported at the end of 2015 fully loaded common equity Tier 1 ratios of at least 10% and most announced leverage ratios of 4.0% or higher.