Sentence examples for dubious lending from inspiring English sources

But the institution told them to accept their dubious lending decisions and swallow the losses.

In the run-up to the financial crisis, bank revenues and profits were driven by reckless trading and dubious lending.

In retrospect, it's clear that Merrill expanded into the mortgage sector without conducting a thorough analysis of the housing market or of new, increasingly dubious lending practices.

As demand for mortgages swelled, banks began to engage in highly dubious lending practices, including issuing mortgages without verifying the income of borrowers.

But dubious lending practices created crippling losses at the company, and in early 2008 Countrywide was taken over by Bank of America for $4 billion in stock.

Under the Dodd-Frank Act, regulators are required to write some 300 new rules for Wall Street, touching everything from the $600 trillion derivatives market to dubious lending practices.

The great bulk of dubious subprime lending took place from 2004 to 2006 — yet homeownership rates are already back down to mid-2003 levels.

He can push and prod the Fed to better monitor and enforce provisions that clamp a lid on dubious trading, lending practices, and investments by some banks and brokerage houses.

He sought congressional approval for a military strike, and when passage turned dubious, he lent support to the Russian initiative through which Assad promised to destroy his chemical weapons.

Better, surely, to own the debt of Petrobras than have the dubious honour of lending the British government money at a low yield for 100 years, an idea that is currently being test-marketed by the authorities.

The film, which features Adrian Grenier, the crushed-on star of "Entourage," was directed by and stars Ari Gold, an actor and longtime friend of Mr. Grenier's who has the dubious honor of lending his name to the Jeremy Piven character on "Entourage".