Sentence examples for problematic asset from inspiring English sources

However, even with its ability to be cut down into small, investible, pieces, it is still a problematic asset to get one's hands on and to store.

Two weeks ago, a published report said Merrill Lynch set at €650 billion the total of German banks' "problematic assets".

Rational private sector investors will probably assume that the banks will only sell their most problematic assets, and bid accordingly.

The agency Fitch also predicted stability for the sector, although it said profitability would be low and there were risks due to the large quantity of "problematic assets".

Modern presidents have followed a tradition of selling potentially problematic assets or sequestering them into a blind trust, overseen by an independent manager with unassailable control.

In a separate talk on Sunday at the conference, Donald L. Kohn, the Fed's vice chairman, listed several measures the central bank was likely to take to shed the problematic assets it took from banks during the financial crisis.

Providing more detail about problematic assets including periphery bonds and loan exposures to troubled pockets such as Spanish real estate or small and medium companies was one of the main hopes investors have for the stress tests.

In order to clean up Crédit Lyonnais, the government created a "bad bank" into which all of its most problematic assets were parked so that they could be sold or managed until they expired.

"Something urgently had to be done about Bankia because the size of its problematic assets made it the most delicate and dangerous part of the whole financial sector," said Jordi Fabregat, a finance professor at the Esade business school in Barcelona.

"What's unclear is whether this will be enough to restore confidence among investors, or whether in fact 10 billion euros will end up being a drop in the ocean should all the problematic assets turn out to be worth zero".

There is a popular perception in the U.K. and the U.S. that savings banks ("building societies" or "thrifts") will emerge relatively unscathed from the financial crisis, because most have little or no exposure to the most problematic asset-backed securities.