Ferreira, LeonorCosta, Mariana Almeida Escada da2015-12-032015-12-032012-01http://hdl.handle.net/10362/16045Capital Requirements have been gaining importance in the current macroeconomic and financial environment and Portugal is no exception. Nonetheless, despite the several media articles on this subject, the associations with Loan Market Conditions, namely availability and pricing are still unstudied. Thus, this project adds to the existing literature a characterization of Portuguese four biggest banks on capital reporting and requirements fulfillment. It is concluded that banks under analysis need to increase capital and that there is an association between the variables under study: Share Capital is negatively correlated with Credit Volume, and it is positively correlated with Net Commercial Income.engLoan market conditionsCapital requirementsShare capitalPortugalmaster thesis