That rule, passed in 2010 and called the "swaps pushout rule", dictated that banks had to keep certain arcane, risk-taking businesses away from customer deposits: swaps in stocks, commodities, and similar businesses.
On the worst day for American shares since March 2003, sell orders were so heavy that at one point the New York Stock Exchange could not process them all.Although the stockmarkets commanded the headlines, more telling evidence of the jitters lay in the many other places in which people buy and sell ever more arcane flavours of risk (see article).
For too long, new-economy corporate creeps and their accounting Heeps have hidden risk in arcane off-the-books dealing.
She held up the financial reform package passed by leading Democrats last year until she could get stronger language limiting high risk and arcane securities bets.
Thirdly, "More Time for Learning" offers a corrective to education's "culture of compliance," where districts often squander Title I anti-poverty money rather than risk violating arcane federal rules.
Advice regarding appropriate ethical practice in research in populations at risk is arcane [ 15, 16] and this presents RECs with difficulties when reviewing such studies.
Risk assessment is sometimes regarded as arcane numerology, a rigid process of computing risk numbers in which much available science is unused.
"They are of a new vintage," Kaufman writes, "trained in arcane mathematical techniques, prideful of quantitative risk analysis and not outward-going in demeanor.
Others churn out the computer models that analyze otherwise unmeasurable risks and profits of arcane deals, or run their own hedge funds and sift through vast universes of data for the slight disparities that can give them an edge.
Plunkett had a role in the arcane business of monitoring the bank's risk on a "digital exotic options contract" that was based on the price at the gold fix at 3pm.
But that is better than ten years of bread and water".That Tony Blair was willing to risk his future over the arcane details of university finance was indeed gratifying.
