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01 / UNDERSTANDING
Learning objectives
Cover loss absorption, capital numerators, risk-weighted denominators and the distinction between solvency resilience and cash availability. Compare capital as a loss absorber with cash as a payment resource. Your practical tasks are to name the capital numerator and exposure denominator and recalculate both initial and changed ratios. These conceptual objectives are a study framework, not an official question allocation. Demonstrate the distinction with a fresh worked case, including the assumptions that make the answer valid.
02 / UNDERSTANDING
The concept in context
Bank capital provides a loss-absorbing funding layer and helps support confidence in an institution’s resilience. Capital ratios depend on both the numerator and the defined exposure denominator, so an unchanged capital amount need not imply an unchanged ratio. Calculate the specified capital-to-risk-weighted-assets ratio and examine numerator and denominator changes separately.
03 / UNDERSTANDING
A worked learning case
A fictional bank has eligible classroom capital of 12 and risk-weighted assets of 100, giving a ratio of 12%. If the capital amount stays 12 while risk-weighted assets rise to 120, the ratio becomes 10%. No loss has been assumed, but the larger denominator reduces the measured ratio. These invented figures do not describe regulatory compliance.
ORIGINAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
Try it before you check.
What is the ratio after risk-weighted assets increase to 120?
Show the answer and reasoning
10%.
Dividing the unchanged capital amount of 12 by risk-weighted assets of 120 gives 0.10, or 10%. The earlier 12% ratio used a denominator of 100. This demonstrates that growth or reclassification of exposures can change a ratio even when the capital numerator is stable, without establishing any current regulatory threshold.
Two traps to watch for.
- Treating capital as the same thing as immediate cash liquidity.
- Reading a ratio change without checking its denominator.
YOUR TOPIC-SPECIFIC LEARNING MAP
Your revision map
Name the capital numerator and exposure denominator.
Recalculate both initial and changed ratios.
Separate conceptual arithmetic from regulatory compliance.
Explain the idea, apply it to a new situation, then check what changed in your reasoning.
BANKERS TUTORIAL · SOURCE NOTES
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Official links provide subject context and authoritative reference material. This guide’s explanation, scenario and question are original Bankers Tutorial learning content.
- www.rbi.org.in https://www.rbi.org.in/scripts/DataDefinition.aspx
- www.rbi.org.in https://www.rbi.org.in/commonperson/english/Scripts/FAQs.aspx
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