This information could include, for example, the proportion of borrowers who default on or roll over their original loan, the average amount repaid per £100 borrowed, and the risks of not repaying.
If put into force, the new rules would probably fall hardest on large European institutions like Deutsche Bank and Barclays, which tend to use a high proportion of borrowed money to do business or have large portfolios of derivatives.
Banks around the world are under increasing pressure from regulators to reduce risk, and Deutsche Bank is considered particularly vulnerable because by some measures, it uses an unusually high proportion of borrowed money to do business.
Republicans aired exaggerated figures for the proportion of government spending that is borrowed, ranging from 40% to 43% (the true figure this year was 36.1%, projected to fall to 27% in 2012).
We use (pi ^{b}(t):=frac {phi ^{b}(t bar {B}_{t}}{V_{t-}^{boldsymbol {phi }}}) to denote the proportion of wealth invested in the borrowing account.
At present, the proportion of new mortgages where the amount borrowed is at or above 4.5 income been about 11% of the market, said the CML, comfortably below the 15% threshold now proposed.
The bank said its leverage ratio, the proportion of its own cash or shares to borrowed money, was 3 percent.
The report suggests that the sensitivity of bank-lending rates to central-bank rates in a country goes down as the proportion of foreign-owned banks goes up—since banks can borrow internationally.
Short positions — as measured by the proportion of bonds available for lending that have actually been borrowed — have risen to 9.82 percent from 9.58 percent at the end of January, and 8.24 percent at the end of December.
Moody's, a rating agency, predicts that the proportion of low-rated companies that default on their borrowing will rise from 1% to 4.2% within a year.
