Higher capital requirements mean, in essence, more equity funding and – by implication, under any sensible definition – relatively less debt for a given balance-sheet size. This is an attractive and sensible policy, because today’s global banks have relatively small slivers of equity underpinning their operations.
本质上说，提高资本要求意味着更多的股本融资以及——根据任何合理定义都可以推断——给定资产负债表规模情况下相对较少的债务。这是一项颇有吸引力和明智的政策，因为今天的全球银行用于支持经营活动的股本相对较少。