Sentences with phrase «becoming debt instruments»

Essentially, loans were becoming more like bonds: they were becoming debt instruments to be traded between various investors, rather than loans which a single bank would hold to maturity and beyond.

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Constant Maturity - The constant maturity takes place when there is a quoted return, or yield, on a financial instrument, that is fixed and it involves comparing the instrument in question with other financial instruments that are also fixed, but that have different maturities, which is the given date the debt become due for payment.

While individual debt instruments mature, credit - worthy companies are able to refinance, and expand, their indebtedness as they become more and more creditworthy.

The subprime mortgage fallout continued to affect the banking industry as it became difficult to value debt instruments backed by mortgages and caused a temporary credit freeze in some markets during the late summer.

Core Capital generally used to correspond to Equity (Ordinary plus Preferred Share Capital), but became horribly corrupted in the past decade with all kinds of contingent / subordinated debt instruments masquerading as Equity.

But for the past 30 years, we've taken for granted that we can also offer the benefit of all these European instruments and that English judgments will be enforceable across the EU — and as soon as those are stripped back, one may need to consider the balance between the general reputation of English courts and English law and the fact that we may need to say to clients that it may potentially become harder to enforce your debt overseas in the EU.

Had that rule been overturned, many investors in corporations which had executed debt instruments under seal might have become personally liable for the corporations» debts, and would have blamed their solicitors for failing to protect them from that risk.