Sentence examples for collateral standards from inspiring English sources
For this week's operation, the E.C.B. expanded its collateral standards to make it easier for smaller banks to access cash.
However, the Fed can bypass the markets and lend directly to banks at its discount window, where collateral standards are more flexible.
Backing off from Mr. Gensler's demands has led to some important industry victories, including one that avoided higher collateral standards for all but the biggest banks or hedge funds.
For example, new service and delivery technologies, combined with significantly enhanced collateral standards, will practically eliminate the need for intraday credit in the tri-party repo market by the end of next year.
The banks — Citigroup, Bank of America, JPMorgan and Wachovia — said that they had tapped the so-called discount window of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, five days after the central bank lowered the rate and loosened its collateral standards in an effort to inject more money into the credit markets.
Just last week the ECB announced it would essentially abandon its collateral standards when lending to Irish banks, just as it did before with Greece.
After that, however, many economists expect the ECB to revert to its pre-crisis standards on collateral, of only accepting debt that is A- and up.
American officials, who will speak about the classified drone program only on the condition of anonymity, say it has killed more than 2,000 militants and about 50 noncombatants since 2001 — a stunningly low collateral death rate by the standards of traditional airstrikes.
By the end of 2012 BNDES's Tier 1 capital the most solid sort—had fallen to 8.4% of assets and Caixa's to 6.6%, far below the 12.1% average for Brazilian banks.BNDES has high underwriting standards and good collateral.
The ECB took three main steps: adjusting its money market operations to offer unlimited amounts of funds, lowering standards on the collateral it accepts in such operations, and buying bonds.
