Tier One Capital

REMARKS

This includes equity, both common equity and preference equity.

This is the core measure of a bank's financial strength from a regulators perspective.

Includes qualifying perpetual preferred stock.

This comprises of core capital.

This consists primarily of common stock and disclosed reserves (or retained earnings). It may also include preferred stock (non redeemable, non cumulative).

Tier one capital is the ratio of a banks core equity capital to its total risk-weighted assets.