Sentences with phrase «balance sheets of banks»

Would a collapse in Italian or Spanish bonds crack the weak balance sheets of the banks which own these securities and already have unsustainable levels of NPLs?

China is engaged in an elaborate shell game to hide a mountain of bad debts piling up on the balance sheets of its banks, developers and state - owned enterprises.

The area's third - largest economy had appeared to be emerging from a long period of stagnation thanks to the European Central Bank's loose monetary policy, improvements in the balance sheet of its banks and the first fruits of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's labor market reform.

Berkeley economist Barry Eichengreen recently told Spiegel Online that Europe will find no way around rescheduling Greek debt, which will hurt the balance sheet of banks that own Greek bonds.

In his resignation note, Rajan, who earned an «A» grade last year in Global Finance's annual Central Banker Report Cards, described some of the major initiatives from his three years leading RBI: establishing an inflation - focused framework, cutting 150 basis points from the interest rate, improving the balance sheets of banks through the Asset Quality Review, reforming state - run bank management appointments and restructuring the RBI.

Getting assets off the balance sheets of banks is particularly attractive in the current economic climate, as banks are restricting their lending due to stricter regulation.

Foreign currency reserve assets are held on the balance sheet of the Bank, with the currency allocation, asset allocation and interest rate risk on investments managed against benchmark targets.

«The government needs to urgently explain what impact this proposal will have on the public finances, what the administration costs are estimated to be, how the scheme would work and what effect it would have on the balance sheets of the bank,» he said.

The idea that we can repair the balance sheets of the banks very quickly so they can return to business as before is unrealistic.»

Say, for instance, you own RBC or CIBC stock; the value of this stock goes up and down based on the balance sheet of those banks.

As of now the indications are that those negative issues will have no reflections on the balance sheets of the banks.

Also, the losses on commercial real estate have not been felt yet on the balance sheets of banks.

So it is time to look at the balance sheets of the banks and how they are doing.

For now, most of the QE «proceeds» are sitting on the balance sheets of banks, but at some point it will hit the real economy.

Shadow inventory: The cache of homes that have undergone the foreclosure process and are on the balance sheets of banks and GSEs but are not yet on the market for resale.

You might not think of commercial banks as a prime source for longer - term loans — but seven - year terms have become common for commercial mortgages provided from the balance sheets of banks eager to lend, especially on multifamily properties...

Another factor keeping the level of distressed properties high is the so - called «shadow inventory,» the cache of homes not yet on the market but already — or likely to end up — on the balance sheets of banks, the FHA, Fannie Mae, or Freddie Mac and thus for sale.

If adopted as proposed by the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the U.S. version of Basel III would require banks to increase the amount of capital used to fund the single family residential real estate loans that remain on the balance sheet of banks by assigning these loans a greater risk weighting.

You might not think of commercial banks as a prime source for longer - term loans — but seven - year terms have become common for commercial mortgages provided from the balance sheets of banks eager to lend...

That will inevitably have some sort of negative effect on the U.S., Europe and other rich economies, through decreased imports from developed countries and losses on the balance sheets of banks in rich nations.