10 Information on bank capital adequacy, and other financial measures, can be found on the Reserve Bank’s Financial Strength Dashboard here (please note, however, that capital measures on the Dashboard will differ to the figure cited here as capital measures on the Dashboard are ‘risk-weighted’): https://bankdashboard.rbnz.govt.nz/summary  7  ‘Skin in the Game’ As I mentioned, the Reserve Bank has recently proposed an increase to the minimum capital requirement for banks.
We have proposed this increase for a number of very important reasons, and one of them is to require banks to put more of their own chips – not yours – into the pot. The Reserve Bank, like other banking regulators around the world, requires bank owners to put some of their own money into the bank.