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New total tier 1 capital plus tier 2 capital to risk weight assets ratio introduced by Basel III rules.

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Minimum Tier 1 capital to risk weight assets for well capitalized purposes as required by Basel III rule.

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Trust which has issued trust-preferred securities. In order to issue trust preferred securities, a sponsor forms a trust by investing a nominal amount of cash to purchase all of the voting common stock of the trust. The trust issues nonvoting, mandatorily redeemable preferred securities to outside investors in exchange for cash. The proceeds received from the issuance of the preferred securities, together with the cash received for issuing the common stock to the sponsor, is then loaned to the sponsor in exchange for a note which has the same terms as the trust preferred securities. Trust preferred securities possesses characteristics of both equity and debt issues and are generally issued by bank holding companies.

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The orginal maturity period for the unused portion of a commitment in order to stablish a 20% credit conversion factor, as required by Basel III rules.

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Total Capital divided by risk weighted assets as defined in the regulations.

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The carrying amount of mortgage loans on real estate that were sold during the reporting period.

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The cash inflow associated with the sale of debt and equity securities classified as available-for-sale securities.

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Percentage of the Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) voting interest owned by (or beneficial interest in) the reporting entity (directly or indirectly).

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