@wa_ithaka. you gotta stop with the google thing dude, better to ask those in the profession, but will look into the issues u mentioned. I have a cool dvd someone sent me on banking and economics, if u want to see it email me.
@vvs. when I referred to accounting, I was not referring to capital, I was actually referring to processes of making loans and creating deposits (thus impact on core capital ratio). But you're right these regulations were devised by the BIS long ago in the late 80s.
I'm not aware of the minimum time frame on debt as 'capital' (will look into it). I just read an NIC annual report and Tier 2 capital includes subordinated debt not exceeding 50% of core capital...so KCB will look at raising no more than 11b if it wants to include it as capital, every reason why they should issue it in tranches...so wa_ithaka may have a genuine point (but then again that wasn't the debate).
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