Incorporating U.S. capital market sanctions into foreign policy is unprecedented, although the idea of using capital market leverage is not new.
We also had good rules when it comes to capital and leverage.
But supporters of capital market sanctions urge lawmakers to look at the results of various divestment campaigns to gauge the actual potential in using capital market leverage.
Investment firm Gordon Brothers used its partners' capital and leverage recently to buy 160 homes at a "significant discount" from their previous book value from a bankrupt home builder.
It reflects the proprietary capital they can leverage for generating returns.
Geithner attributed the strength of the U.S. banks, including the largest ones, to sustainable levels of capital and financial leverage as well as stable funding sources.
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And this weekend at the G20, we talked about how we can coordinate effectively with the international community to make sure that high standards for capital and reduced leverage apply not just here in the United States but across the board.
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They then passed along that freed-up capital to their BHC parents who applied more leverage to that capital.
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In terms of capital structure, equity REITs with lower leverage that are less dependent on capital markets for growth or refinancing of capital should be relatively better-positioned to expand balance sheets and weather economic and financial volatility.
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We have conducted investor landscape reviews to support the growing interest of the capital market, and most importantly we have always had an eye toward how to leverage our risk capital beyond our own commitments.
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After the smoke had cleared, it emerged that LTCM had been allowed to leverage its capital 25-to-1.
Tokyo needs to leverage the capital that it has already accrued amongst states in the region to regain some of its lost prestige.
What I think the Europeans will choose to do is leverage the capital of the EFSF (currently 440bn euros) up by borrowing 5-10 times that from the market.
It's a positive sign that many of these programs drew so many applicants for funding that a lot of strong proposals -- proposals that will leverage private capital and create jobs quickly -- did not make the cut.
At the center of the Gigabit Neighborhood Gateway Program is the idea that communities and their local stakeholders can drive economic opportunities through private investments that leverage public capital that will accelerate the deployment and utilization of gigabit speed networks.
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In a presentation last month, Einhorn outlined a number of inconsistencies in Lehman's first quarter financial report and raised the more basic concerns that the company needs to provide more and clearer disclosures about its exposures, and raise more capital and reduce its leverage.
Since the middle of 2007, Morgan Stanley has raised about twenty billion dollars in new capital and cut in half its leverage ratio the total value of its assets divided by its capital.
Canada's banks face high capital requirements and a cap on their leverage, such that their assets cannot exceed 20 times their capital (a lot less than the corresponding figure for many Wall Street firms and European banks).
Critically, we need to reach agreement internationally on reducing leverage and raising capital requirements, improving both the quantity and quality of capital.
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This capital was then used to leverage resources from banks and private developers, many of which were in partnership with nonprofit development organizations known as community development corporations, to build low-income housing.
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Our conclusion is that large cap banks are not currently priced for sustained earnings growth, and that those banks that can create operating leverage and deploy capital are in a position to achieve low double digit EPS growth even with modest top line growth.
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Orange Capital doesn't have much leverage to force Strategic to put itself on the block.
Lehman's bankruptcy and AIG's failure suggest Wall Street has too much leverage and too much capital devoted to products of questionable economic utility.
And the regulators invented the Basel system of risk-weighted capital ratios, which stipulates different leverage ratios for different categories of loan, in theory to take account of the riskiness of those loans.
So, higher capital standards, some limits on leverage and prohibition of derivatives with no apparent social benefit may have done 90 percent of the good that needed doing with many fewer unintended consequences that are bound to come out of a 2000 page document that no single person has read yet.
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It will suggest incorporating a leverage ratio into bank-capital requirements, to supplement the existing risk-weighting of assets.
Banks are busy reducing leverage and shoring up their capital, and the effects of both are cascading through the financial markets.
Why is it that private equity firms, like Bain Capital, hold so much power and leverage when it comes to startup companies?
Banks, facing capital constraints and forced to de-leverage their own holdings of troubled assets, are not lending more to each other or to customers.
Tolls, though not generally popular, are the key to revitalizing America's transportation infrastructure, because toll revenue can be used to leverage enormous amounts of private capital.
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