Sentence examples for onerous capital from inspiring English sources

In the UK, Prudential has withdrawn from bulk annuities and blamed what it said was the onerous capital impact under the Solvency II rules.

If the modern version of the American dream is to privatise gains and socialise risks, then Fannie and Freddie are certainly living it.Imagine: exempt from state and local taxes, they also have less onerous capital adequacy requirements than private rivals.

Mr. Donaldson said that adoption of the proposal would enable the commission to monitor an industry approaching $1 trillion in assets, and that the commission had no interest in setting onerous capital requirements or curtailing transactions that comply with existing laws.

A senior European banker expressed concern this week that onerous new capital requirements could have a crippling effect on lending, especially when fair-value accounting may be exaggerating the losses.

Obtaining capital on onerous terms has always been a requirement for companies in their infancy.

As seductive as private equity is, it can trap investors with onerous restrictions like high capital requirements and long-range commitments.

Banks are somehow making gigatons of money despite onerous new regulations and capital requirements.

The plan was seen as especially controversial in that it effectively meant that Barclays, with its profits under intense pressure, had made a decision to pay more to Middle Eastern investors, spurning capital with less onerous terms from the British government, which has taken stakes in the country's battered banks.

Mike Smith, chief executive of Australia's ANZ and an Asia veteran, says that in some countries in the region smaller family-controlled banks may be up for sale as capital requirements become more onerous.

Look, they say, it's just as we said, the regulatory and capital requirements are so onerous that nobody wants to expand in banking because nobody can see how to make respectable returns.

A lot of startups that have revenue don't want to raise venture capital because of the onerous terms – lots of equity, board seats and maybe even overall control of the company.