Since the onset of the crisis, the highest quality capital has increased from 7.1 to 10.7 per cent of the entire banking system’s risk-weighted assets; for the five largest groups the ratio has risen from 5.7 to 10.9 per cent.
2  BIS Review 15/2010  The employment boom of the 1980s and 1990s also owed a lot, I think, to an emergent cando attitude and a new willingness of the younger members of the Irish labour force (who are now, of course, in their 40s and 50s) to exploit an innate flexibility and turn their hand to any likely type or location of employment, without standing on ceremony, and without adopting an attitude of entitlement.