Castro, Filipa Frade deCarvalho, Miguel Cabrita Santos Roque de2019-05-172019-05-172019-01-22http://hdl.handle.net/10362/69935Departing from an extensive period of financial instability across the European banking industry, this work aims to study the capital adequacy of six major Portuguese Institutions. Portuguese Banks were divided in two different sets according to their size and 60 EU banks allocated according to their RWAs proximity. Despite complying with the minimal capital requirements and attaining in recent year an enhancement in the capital ratio higher than their peers, Portuguese Banks are still considerably undercapitalized. Contrarily to abroad, instead of a rise in own funds the catalyst was an expressive reduction of the RWAs from Credit Risk.engBanksPortugalCapital requirementsRisk weighted assetsCredit riskmaster thesis202226182