Sentence examples for leveraging themselves from inspiring English sources

The old law, he wrote, "did not prohibit banks from trading, engaging in derivatives, leveraging themselves or making bad loans".

Investment banks like Lehman Brothers were able to make big profits in part by leveraging themselves more than traditional banks.

At the same time, the three main Icelandic banks — Kaupthing, Landsbanki, and Glitnir — and many of the businesses associated with them were leveraging themselves internationally.

So the crisis might not have reached the scale that it did without financial institutions of all types leveraging themselves to the hilt in pursuit of higher returns.

"But I've picked up on a lot of resentment that people would basically engage in casino bets by leveraging themselves 40-to-1".

The Glass-Steagall Act (repealed in 1999) prohibited commercial banks from underwriting debt and equity issues, a very safe activity; it did not prohibit banks from trading, engaging in derivatives, leveraging themselves or making bad loans.

This encourages firms to leverage themselves heavily.

This skewed playing field gives companies incentives to leverage themselves up to the gills.

It hadn't violated the trust of big institutional investors or even of homebuyers that might have over-leveraged themselves.

As the recent revelations about Apple in China have shown, mega-suppliers such as Foxconn have enormous leverage themselves.

Not only do they have an incentive to pile on the leverage themselves, they are periodically exposed to overindebted customers, especially real estate developers and leveraged buyout houses.