EU CAD study published

Brussels -- The long-anticipated study on the impact that the proposed EU Capital Adequacy Directive will have on financial institutions within that region will give the anti-Basel II forces less ammunition than they had perhaps hoped for.

The Study on the financial and macroeconomic consequences of the draft proposed new capital requirements for banks and investment firms in the EU, authored by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC), concludes that there will be, on average, a relatively small reduction in the average amount of economic capital that financial institutions will have to hold – about 5.3%. If the so-called Madrid Compromise is taken into account, the reduction might increase to 10%. The report – which was based on data from

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