Sentences with phrase «heightened financial interest»

What ought to be questioned, however, is whether or not this heightened financial interest is deserved.

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Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevaFinancial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevafinancial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

Although farm financial conditions have stabilized somewhat, higher interest rates could heighten concerns for some farm borrowers.

Hopes for higher short - term interest rates are heightening prospects for the financial industry generally, but they have an outsized impact on regional banks.

«Contributions to candidates for city office from persons with a particularly direct financial interest in these officials» policy decisions pose a heightened risk of actual and apparent corruption, and merit heightened government regulations,» the opinion by judges Debra Livingston, Guido Calabresi and Paul Crotty said.

Online unsecured loans are advantageous for the borrower because there is a heightened sense of competition that is prevalent among the Internet financial sector, which means that lenders and lending institutions that do their business online often offer greatly reduced rates of interest for borrowers of all credit types when they choose to take out their unsecured loans via the Internet.

High levels of government and household debt, heightened interest rate sensitivity, unfavorable demographic trends, weakened financial systems and complex global and financial inter-linkages mean that heightened macroeconomic volatility will almost certainly be a fact of life in coming years and decades.

Continued low interest rates are driving the key global housing markets, in spite of relatively sluggish economic growth and heightened financial market volatility.