Definition of "undercapitalized" []

• Lacking sufficient capital (adjective)

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• "The Seattle bank has been classified as "undercapitalized" since August 2009 by its federal regulator."
• "Undercapitalized: A bank that has less than 4 percent of Tier 1 is defined as undercapitalized from a regulatory perspective."
• "The U.S. banking system has been "undercapitalized" for the past "40 to 50 years," former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan told a panel today in Washington convened to investigate the roots of the financial crisis."