Bank Regulatory Capital : Summary, October 2007

This post will summarize the information previously given for the Big 6 Canadian Banks: RY, BNS, BMO, TD, CM, & NA

Capital Structure
October, 2007
  RY BNS BMO TD CM NA
Total Tier 1 Capital 23,383 20,225 16,994 15,645 12,379 4,442
Common Shareholders’ Equity 95.2% 81.5% 83.8% 131.5% 90.1% 95.0%
Preferred Shares 10.0% 8.1% 8.5% 6.2% 23.7% 9.0%
Innovative Tier 1 Capital Instruments 14.9% 13.6% 14.3% 11.1% 0% 11.4%
Non-Controlling Interests in Subsidiaries 0.1% 2.5% 0.2% 0.1% 1.1% 0.4%
Goodwill -20.3% -5.6% -6.7% -49.0% -14.9% -15.8%

Some readers might be interested in comparing these figures to CitiBank’s 3Q07 Report: Tier 1 Capital was – after all the horrid writedowns, and before the $7.5-billion infusion – $92,370-million (USD). Total Tier 1 Capital for the Canadian Big 6 is $93,068-million (CAD). Citibank has no perpetual preferreds outstanding. They do have something in Tier 1 Capital called “Qualify mandatorily redeemable securities of subsidiary trusts” – frankly, I don’t know what those are.

Tier 1 Issuance Capacity
October 2007
  RY BNS BMO TD CM NA
Equity Capital (A) 17,545 15,840 13,126 12,931 9,448 3,534
Non-Equity Tier 1 Limit (B=A/3) 5,848 5,280 4,375 4,310 3,149 1,178
Innovative Tier 1 Capital (C) 3,494 2,750 2,422 1,740 0 508
Preferred Limit (D=B-C) 2,354 2,530 1,953 2,570 3,149 670
Preferred Y/E Actual (E) 2,344 1,635 1,446 974+250 2,931 400
New Issuance Capacity (F=D-E) 10 895 507 1,346 218 270
 

It seems unlikely that we’ll see any RY issuance this year, but any of the others appear to be able to top things up, if conditions are right.  

We can now show the all important Risk-Weighted Asset Ratios!

        

Risk-Weighted Asset Ratios
October 2007

  Note RY BNS BMO TD CM NA
Equity Capital A 17,545 15,840 13,126 12,931 9,448 3,534
Risk-Weighted Assets B 247,635 218,300 178,687 152,519 127,424 49,336
Equity/RWA C=A/B 7.09% 7.3% 7.35% 8.48% 7.41% 7.16%
Tier 1 Ratio D 9.4% 9.3% 9.51% 10.3% 9.7% 9.0%
Capital Ratio E 11.5% 10.5% 11.74% 13.0% 13.9% 12.4%

TD’s figure needs to be taken with a grain of salt; their takeover of Commerce Bancorp is expected to reduce Tier 1 Capital to the 8.75%-9.00% range; presumably with a similar effect on the Equity Ratio and Total Capital Ratio.

Otherwise, it is interesting to note that CM has the best protected Preferreds (with “protection” defined solely in terms of the regulatory risk-weighted-assets and capital that is junior to preferreds) while RY has the least protected.

And again, for those interested, Citibank had (at the third quarter 2007) a Tier 1 Ratio of 7.32% and a Total Capital Ratio of 10.61%. It should be noted that regulatory ratios are not directly comparable between regulators, as the regulators have a certain amount of discretion in applying the internationally agreed guidelines.

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