Sentence examples for swap liabilities from inspiring English sources

But the market is very opaque, and many banks and other companies are fearful of doing business with one another because they worry that big, unknown swap liabilities could cause counterparties to fail to live up to financial obligations.

"Poor investment returns in 2008 and unusually large swap liabilities," Moody's said in February, "have combined to reduce the unrestricted net assets" of universities and hospitals around the nation.

Some modicum of confidence about short-term lending is returning, and some of the worst-case scenarios about credit-default-swap liabilities are easing, but, overall, the credit and financing markets, including the municipal-bond market critical to state and local governments, remain almost frozen.

Instead of saving money, swap deals are liabilities, redirecting money that could maintain essential services, create good jobs and close budget gaps.

The asset might be an interest rate swap, while the liability is a wheat future.

The initial swap covers £500m of liabilities with a further £250m planned.

According to Mr Schofield, what alarmed him even more than the £7m liability the swap had created was what he learnt about the nature of the financial instrument.

"The immediate priority is to ensure small businesses are not driven out of business by banks pursuing liabilities for swaps that they mis-sold".

Those include charges of dishonest accounting, fraudulent swapping of assets and liabilities, and the enrichment of top executives as lower-level employees lost millions.

On "Meet the Press" on April 19, Mr. Summers said one option for increasing the banks' capital was "asset liability swaps," by which he meant a voluntary exchange of loan forgiveness for equity.

Two years after filing for protection, Federated reached a deal to swap $5 billion in debt and other liabilities for new notes and equity.