Does that create a situation where people would like to come and invest large sums of capital?
Several large regional banks -- like Regions Financial in Alabama and SunTrust Banks in Georgia, and Keycorp and Fifth Third in Ohio -- were also deemed to need large sums of capital.
This we believe not only helps shed greater light on the sustainability of group dividend but illuminates the areas where the group still has large sums of capital allocated inefficiently.
The trouble is, a decade after the founding of the business, investors could reasonably expect Ocado to be making exceptional returns on the large sums of capital invested in slick machinery and novel software programmes for sorting groceries.
Concentrating on advisory work allows Greenhill & Company to keep a smaller staff and to have less overhead than the much bigger banks, which have enormous trading floors and lend large sums of capital to their clients at much thinner margins.
"There will continue to be concerns over bank solvency until relatively large sums of capital are injected into the system," Mr. Peace and other Nomura analysts wrote in a report on Monday.
But many developing countries, under the influence of dynamic theories of economic development, have used a variety of direct and indirect controls to divert large sums of capital to the manufacturing sector in the form of loans at interest rates well below the level required to equate the demand and supply of capital funds.
A record amount of dry powder in the venture ecosystem has pushed VCs downstream, where they can deploy large sums of capital in more mature companies.
The idea of allowing Chinese people to freely swap their yuan for dollars, for example, terrifies the state-controlled banks, because large sums of capital would quickly flow abroad in search of more favourable returns in overseas wealth products.
Rather than Google, Facebook or Microsoft, increasingly Chinese duo Alibaba and Tencent are the driving forces behind the importing of large sums of capital and vast business experience into Southeast Asia's most promising startups.
