Shore Capital has retained its 'buy' stance on Barclays but has highlighted readacross from reports that German banking peer Deutsche Bank is under pressure from investors to raise more capital.According to the Financial Times, Deutsche Bank may be asked by European regulators to raise fresh equity after Eurozone-wide health checks on banks later this year.Deutsche Bank reported a common-equity tier-1 (CET1) capital ratio of 9.7% and a leverage ratio of 3.1% at the end of last year. Shore pointed out that Barclays had a CET1 ratio of 9.3% at the end of December 2013, some 40 basis points lower than Deutsche Bank and at a similar leverage ratio."Therefore, if Deutsche Bank does choose to raise capital then this may put pressure on Barclays to do likewise, in our view, despite the company having only recently raised £5.8bn of fresh equity through a rights issue in October last year," said Analyst Gary Greenwood.Barclays is currently aiming to increase its CET1 ratio to 10.5% by 2015 and between 11.5-12% by 2019, which includes a buffer over the anticipated regulatory minimum. The leverage ratio is expected to be at least 3.5% by the end of 2015 and 3.5-4% thereafter.Greenwood said that this improvement is expected to be driven by a combination of retained profits and a further £60bn net reduction in leverage exposure, "without the need for further equity issuance". Ahead of Barclays' first-quarter update and strategy presentation at the start of May, Greenwood said that the stock's price-to-tangible net asset value ratio of 0.8 is "still somewhat depressed". As such, "a convincing strategy presentation could act as a positive catalyst for share price performance", he said.The stock was up 1.5% at 252.6p by 10:17 on Thursday.BC