Sentence examples for offering allocations from inspiring English sources

He said the executives were "personally bought off by being given initial public offering allocations.

Mr. Galvin said he would have approved far fewer stock offerings had he known how public offering allocations were abused.

The investment banking practices of spinning, offering allocations to executives at other companies in hopes of winning future business, and laddering, or requiring buyers to place aftermarket orders at higher prices to get allocations, are now clearly banned.

Regulators are examining whether the Goldman Sachs Group, the Robertson Stephens unit of FleetBoston Financial, the securities arm of J. P. Morgan Chase and Morgan Stanley Dean Witter improperly tied initial public offering allocations to orders in secondary trading, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday, citing unidentified people close to the case.

The appointment comes at a time when CSFB is being investigated by U.S. regulators over potential irregularities in initial public offering allocations and trading commissions.

He denied the basic charge and said that he had been told by a CSFB lawyer that the recent grand jury investigation was about initial public offering allocations and alleged kickbacks.

This confirms that Mr. Grubman was centrally involved in the initial public offering allocation process at the firm, as former employees of Salomon have said.

During the bubble in new technology offerings, allocations of shares in hot offerings were a way to quick riches, and many new deals doubled or tripled in price the first day of trading.

When the market was hot, investors begged to get into new offerings, and allocations of shares were given to select customers as favors.

Using the district accounts data for Bunda district in Tanzania for 2006, we estimated that for the same budget allocation, offering a non-residential course would have allowed an increase in the number of participants from 12 to 17. Increasing the participant-to-facilitator ratio could also dramatically reduce the cost per trainee (WHO 2007).

Offering the canceled coal allocations up for re-allocation via competitive tender -- including the hugely controversial Mahan coal block -- may ultimately not yield much interest.