The phrase "amounts of securities" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in financial contexts when referring to the quantity or volume of various types of securities, such as stocks or bonds.
Example: "The investment firm reported significant increases in the amounts of securities held in their portfolio over the last quarter."
Alternatives: "quantities of securities" or "volumes of securities".
But holding large amounts of securities has hurt banks.
Heightened bank capital requirements prevent warehousing large amounts of securities and increase the cost of financing.
And a downgrade of the financial guarantors would result in major market upheaval as enormous amounts of securities formerly considered triple-A would have to be downgraded, too.
That was one reason so many banks thousands of miles away from the United States owned large amounts of securities backed by American subprime mortgages.
The Federal Reserve's purchase of large amounts of securities — known to some as quantitative easing — was critical in restoring liquidity to American banks and making it possible for them to continue lending.
This seemed strangely appropriate; after all, as Thomas pointed out, the data center hosts a number of "dark pools," or trading regimens that allow the anonymous buying and selling of small amounts of securities at a time, so as not, as Thomas puts it, "to create ripples in the market".
"The United States has designated Bahrain as a 'major non-NATO ally,' and it provides small amounts of security assistance to Bahrain".
The prime minister said newspapers that revealed vast amounts of security information needed to "think about their responsibilities" and whether they were helping to keep the country safe.
Who would you like to build a startup which could address the massive amounts of security attacks apps and sites get these days?
However, classic management-related flaws still persist, e.g. the fusion of large amounts of security events reported from many heterogeneous systems, whilst novel intriguing challenges arise specially when dealing with the adaptation to newly encountered and multi-step attacks.
I live in an apartment complex with ridiculous amounts of security, but having worked at a few startups, I'm familiar with how important technology like this is for a small office, too.
