Sentence examples for crisis leverage from inspiring English sources

But the good thing is that banks are better capitalised now than in the run-in to the crisis, leverage is lower, there is better visibility of counterparty exposures, and we are better placed to deal with financial institutions that get into trouble".

Companies like CommonBond have emerged in response to the student loan crisis, leveraging the popularity of peer-to-peer lending platforms like LendingClub and Prosper to give student borrowers a better shake.

Profitable utilities like Florida Power and Light and FirstEnergy and telecommunications giant AT&T are also exploiting the economic crisis, leveraging for major cuts in health care benefits.

In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, leveraging the $8 billion needed for the Shipyards project required the developer, Lennar Urban, to tap into Chinese markets still overflowing with capital.

He later told an editorial board that "crisis creates leverage to change... and we've got to use that leverage of the crisis to force structural change".

The cannier ones used the crisis as leverage when renegotiating contracts with doctors, health-care providers and pharmaceutical firms.

Or is that a result of the natural aftermath of a crisis, as leverage comes down and people reduce debt?

They could use the crisis as leverage to demand a say in the negotiations, bringing Russia into the eurozone's politics and finance for the first time.

The Republicans had been using the debt ceiling crisis as leverage to try to force Obama into accepting deep spending cuts, particularly in welfare.

The Irish government has branded the bailout interest rates as "punitive" and has been using the Greek crisis as leverage for a change in terms in Europe.

In a speech to Congress in 2004, Alan Greenspan, then the chairman of the Fed, said: "Without the expectation of government support in a crisis, such leverage would not be possible without a significantly higher cost of debt".