"its collateral" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it when referring to something that acts as a guarantee or security for a loan, such as a pledge of real estate, money, or goods, given by a borrower to a lender. For example: "The bank was willing to issue the loan, but only on the condition that the borrower provide its collateral."
The central bank will offer another round of three-year loans at the end of this month, and last Thursday it loosened its collateral rules to encourage smaller banks to join in.
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.
But on Monday, a judge in the Siberian city of Omsk had issued a surprise injunction freezing trades in VimpelCom shares owned by Altimo, Alfa telecom's subsidiary, essentially preventing Deutsche Bank from accessing its collateral even if it wanted to.
Trichet's statements marked a reversal for the ECB, which said in January that it wouldn't soften its collateral policy for the sake of a single country.
When things went wrong, one of the brokers, Merrill Lynch, tried to sell its collateral but soon stopped when it transpired it was only succeeding in driving prices sharply lower.
For this week's operation, the E.C.B. expanded its collateral standards to make it easier for smaller banks to access cash.
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AIG's downfall was its dominance in the credit derivatives market, where it racked up hundreds of billions worth of exposures it couldn't cover when its collateral was called.
There's also a third statement: explaining how the ECB is changing its collateral rules, which will make it easier for euro banks to access the ECB's liquidity-providing operations.
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But by early 2008, as the housing market struggled, the chain's profits dropped, meaning its collateral was losing value and the amount it could borrow fell.
