The process of lending money against the security of assets, or trading assets with the banks' capital, helped to push asset prices even higher.

这个以资产证券为抵押进行贷款，或用银行本金作为交易资产的过程，助长了资产价格的进一步推高。

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If trading losses are piling up, it's time to cut back, even though there is the temptation to make more trades to recover the recently lost trading assets.

如果交易亏损堆积如山，那便是该进行削减的时候，尽管进行更多的交易以便挽回近期的交易资产损失存在诱惑。

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Some lenders have taken advantage of changes in accounting rules to reclassify trading assets as banking assets, which means that banks will take losses on those assets more gradually.

一些银行利用会计规则的变化使交易资产重新分类成银行资产，这意味着银行将逐渐损失交易资产。

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It also beat its peers in derivatives exposures, trading assets, cross-border risk, liquidity and market risk.

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It does not include any of Lehman's trading assets or liabilities, Nomura said.

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When Barclays acquired some of the trading assets from Lehman, they specifically disavowed responsibility for the ETNs.

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