"We have made good strategic progress across the group in 2013, investing along the gas value chain to secure long term, affordable energy supplies for our customers," said Sam Laidlaw, chief executive of Centrica.
The company did not say how big a stake it would sell or what market value it hoped to secure.
It heightens the sense that Deutsche — whose shares have lost more than half their value this year — needs to secure additional investment, lest it leave itself vulnerable to some new crisis.
A star of the vaudeville circuit with a huge following, Fetchit knows his value, and manages to secure highly favorable terms — albeit only by inventing a fictional white lawyer to blame for his demands.
Well-tenanted properties in large cities like New York are receiving financing at low rates while some Class B buildings in smaller cities are losing value and struggling to secure loans, Mr. Lancaster and other analysts said.
It also now prohibits using anything of immaterial value — say, a $1 guitar — to secure loans.
Her department was meant to secure value for money: the PAC report shows how officials failed to check BT's costings.
"Another likely contributing factor to the decline in numbers of first-time buyers is the rise in the value of deposits paid to secure a mortgage," it said.
In both cases, though, the apartments on offer were snapped up eagerly by a mix of local investors – those who have been priced out of Hong Kong and for whom London still seems good value – and families eager to secure a place in the former colonial capital, either for themselves or for their offspring.
As Fisken and Rutherford (2002) explain: "for a biotechnology company, the business model serves to secure value from the company's proprietary technology and know-how and is currently often heavily reliant on large (bio pharmaceutical or established biotechnology company customers, collaborators and partners".
