Definition of EQUITY CAPITAL

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Stricter regulation of European banks since the financial crisis has required that banks hold more equity capital than in the past. — Costas Paris, WSJ, "Germany’s Commercial Shipping Fleet Shrinks by a Third," 23 Sep. 2018 From 1870 to 2017, with rare exceptions, the net income of commercial banks as a percentage of their equity capital fluctuated within a narrow range of 5% to 10% a year, regardless of the size of their capital buffers. — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, "How to Fix the Great American Growth Machine," 12 Oct. 2018 Tesla would be wise to take advantage of its surprisingly strong quarter to raise as much equity capital as possible given those obligations. — Charley Grant, WSJ, "Tesla Hits the Bull’s-Eye," 24 Oct. 2018 In the run-up to the crisis, banks on average kept about 8 to 10% of their assets as equity capital. — Alan Greenspan, WSJ, "How to Fix the Great American Growth Machine," 12 Oct. 2018 Institutions and rich investors poured $71 billion in equity capital into private real estate funds that closed last year, according to Preqin. — Ken Brown, WSJ, "Real Estate Stocks Are on Sale but No One Is Buying," 27 Apr. 2018 New World Angels is made up of 65 private investors, operators and entrepreneurs who provide equity capital and guidance to early-stage entrepreneurial companies with a strong presence in Florida. — Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun-Sentinel.com, "Florida angel group invests more than $500,000 in Boca-based digital advertising company," 15 June 2018 Its own central-bank governor reckons equity capital is taxed up to five times. — The Economist, "Two Asian stock exchanges tussle over market data," 7 June 2018 Bank of America recently ranked first in the debt capital markets league tables in the U.S. and fifth in equity capital markets, according to first-quarter bank filings citing Dealogic. — Liz Hoffman, WSJ, "Bank of America Capital Markets Head AJ Murphy Leaving For Silver Lake," 3 May 2018

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