Sentence examples for banks leverage from inspiring English sources

Why did this threat give the banks leverage?

The Bank of England's financial policy committee (FPC) has got itself into a pickle on banks' leverage ratios.

More specifically, Canada has been much stricter about limiting banks' leverage, the extent to which they can rely on borrowed funds.

Other essays identify monetary policy in the United States and Europe, corporate pay structures, credit-default swaps, banks' leverage, and financial deregulation as possible causes of the crisis.

The rules will tighten capital requirements for the world's biggest banks — requiring them to set aside a larger cushion of cash and other easy-to-sell securities — and set stricter limits on banks' leverage and liquidity.

It charted total working bank assets in relation to banks' net worth and found, with greater ratios indicating a smaller margin of safety, Germany's banks' leverage were the highest.

That may not seem like much of a drop, but if you think of banks leveraging up their positions, it could result in some nasty losses.

By contrast, for even ambitious ethnic Chinese banks, leveraging customers in other Asian markets is easier said than done.

Volcker wrote that other parts of Dodd's bill, plus an amendment by Merkley and Levin that attempts to rein in banks' trading activities, sufficiently address his concerns about taxpayer-supported banks leveraging that support to speculate in the markets.

Yet seven years on banking leverage remains high and accountability low.

Beyond that, an important aspect of reform should be new rules limiting bank leverage.