One is proprietary trading, in which they bet their own capital on movements in the markets.
Dr Jones solved that problem by developing a proprietary polymer in which to embed the molecules, which boosted scent diffusion over 400-fold.
In particular, Mr. Stone said, he thought the rise of proprietary trading, in which banks trade their own capital, had changed the cultures of the largest investment banks.
In the interests of curbing institutional risk-taking, Dodd-Frank rightly takes aim at derivatives and proprietary trading, in which banks make bets using their own money.
Rules imposed by the Dodd-Frank Act, the most sweeping financial regulatory overhaul in decades, have limited the involvement of Goldman and other banks in riskier investments like hedge funds and proprietary trading, in which firms bet their own capital.
Bain Capital recently raised a $4 billion fund in only a few weeks instead of the usual few months.In the past, private-equity firms were able to do a fair number of "proprietary deals" in which they had no competition.
Some private-equity firms may have better access to "proprietary" deals in which they are the only bidders, so their costs will be lower than if they had to compete for deals.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, proprietary trading, in which the bank bet its own money on securities markets, exposed Deutsche Bank to the fury of the crisis and helped lead to the huge loss.
The rules — part of the Dodd-Frank Act, the regulatory overhaul enacted in the wake of the crisis — take aim at a practice called proprietary trading, in which companies speculate for their own gains rather than for their customers'.
See articleAmerican regulators were bombarded with complaints from banks about forthcoming restrictions on proprietary trading (in which they use their own money to take risky bets), ahead of a deadline for public comment.
