Capital mattress required from Spanish credit institutions 2016

The Basel III regulatory framework requires credit institutions to maintain, in addition to the requirement for a CET1 (Common Equity Tier 1) capital ratio of 4.5% or more, a capital buffer (capital buffers) which accumulate a sufficient capital base in times of prosperity that allow them to absorb the losses in case of crisis. Home In Spain, the competent authority to establish these percentages of capital is the Bank of Spain. Home The statistics show the combined capital cushion for systemically important entities (SISM) and for other systemically important entities (OEIS).