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How much capital does a bank need?

Updated: 9/16/2023
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as much as they can get

The legal requirement for capital is to have no less than 8% of a bank's risk-weighted assets. Assets are loans and reserves. So the amount of loans a bank may make has nothing to do with deposits but is a multiple of its amount of capital.

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