Sentences with phrase «financial cushions banks»

Instead of attempting to minimize risk, they looked to maximize profits by reducing the safe zones — financial cushions banks used to protect themselves.

On top of her financial cushion the bank won't foreclose as quickly on Julie.....

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The banks likely could manage a bust in either city; they would feel it, but their capital cushion is bigger than it was before the 2008 crisis and they are among the most profitable financial institutions in the world.

For many of the country's largest banks, building the bigger financial cushion called for under the bill would be expensive.

Having extra money in the bank will also give you a financial cushion as you adjust to your new mortgage payments.

In the meantime, he may be trusting that U.S. financial institutions with $ 1.9 trillion of excess reserves — funded wholly by the Fed's quantitative easing — will keep banks afloat with enough of a cushion to withstand any coming storm.

Having extra money in the bank will also give you a financial cushion as you adjust to your new mortgage payments.

These institutions, as well as certain regulated banks, had also assumed significant debt burdens while providing the loans described above and did not have a financial cushion sufficient to absorb large loan defaults or MBS losses.