Sentence examples for eager to underwrite from inspiring English sources

Two officials of J. P. Morgan Securities, eager to underwrite a $5 billion bond and derivatives deal in 2003, paid more than $8 million to broker-dealers in Alabama who did no work on the transaction but could help steer the business to J. P. Morgan.

Today, Wall Street is eager to underwrite equity, debt and convertibles in billion-dollar packages.

Wall Street Wary of Chinese Plan for Dam : Investment: Because of environmental and rights concerns, bankers aren't eager to underwrite the Yangtze River project.

He is eager to rejoin the lineup.

Lenders piled into interest-only product, eager to keep underwriting volume alive.

(Travelex agreed to underwrite the scheme).

Lloyds refused to underwrite Garden's appearance.

By Daniel Ford The New Yorker, December 7 , 1987P. 35 Junk bonds may be selling slowly on Wall St. these days, but the White House is still eager to have the federal government underwrite one extremely high-risk venture.

Sunni commanders here seem eager to fight.

Mr. Yuen's background in equity capital markets shows that Bear is eager to seize a greater underwriting presence in the region after initial public offerings surged in China last year.

Treating the financial health of those securities as a given, AIG Financial Products ventured deep into the business of underwriting the so-called credit default swaps, which were lapped up in turn by banks, eager to pass on the cost of risk.