Five financial industry associations have joined forces to express their strong concern about the implications of including central bank cash balances within Basel III’s leverage ratio framework. The ...

Learn how the long-term debt-to-total-assets ratio reveals a company's financial health by showing what portion of its assets is financed by long-term debt.

Could your debt be reduced or forgiven? Take our financial relief quiz. The finance world has a number of metrics for measuring the overall health of a company or individual; one is the debt-to-asset ...

The debt to asset ratio compares the total amount of debt a company holds to its assets. The ratio is used to determine to what degree a company relies on debt to finance its operations and is an ...

The Federal Reserve's top regulator said changes are needed to the supplementary leverage ratio to improve the Treasury market and ensure banks face proper risk incentives. In a Monday speech, Fed ...

It's time to dispense with the fiction that there is no cost to treating underwater "held-to-maturity" securities as regulatory capital. Thoughtful reconsideration of leverage ratio requirements ...

Major Indian banks are expected to sustain high leverage ratios, as healthy profits and a rapidly growing economy will help them build buffers. India's economic growth, which slowed to 5.4% year over ...