Sentences with phrase «of risky financial products»

France's financial regulatory body, the Autorite des Marches Financiers (AMF) said on Tuesday it has set specific requirements for ban on the online advertising of risky financial products,...

Not exact matches

The value of the Internet economy may be understated in GDP calculations, for example, but the omission is offset by artificial inflations in other sectors like financial services, which ballooned in the run - up to 2008 thanks to risky, unsustainable products like mortgage - backed securities.

While it's better to invest than keep money under a mattress, buying risk free securities, such as guaranteed income certificates or low - yielding government bonds, could actually be riskier than purchasing higher returning products, says Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of Toronto's TriDelta Financial Partners.

«The unit at the centre of JP Morgan Chase's $ 2 billion trading loss has built up positions totalling more than $ 100 billion in asset - backed securities and structured products - the complex, risky bonds at the centre of the financial crisis in 2008.

The centerpiece of the current financial overhaul plan is a new agency dedicated to protecting consumers from risky financial products.

Much of the financial turmoil we see today is a by - product of risky and dangerous loans which should never have been made available to large numbers of borrowers.

In other words, you have to use quite a narrow definition of risk to argue that a whole life policy isn't risky; committing the next several decades of your retirement savings to a complicated financial product with a low return rate and a high abandonment rate involves some pretty significant risk taking (although you can see why insurers love this product category so much).

Europe's top markets watchdog may curb trading in derivatives in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as part of a broader crackdown on risky financial products available to retail investors.

Stevens told attendees the entire financial industry made bad decisions regarding risky loan products and there is no doubt that reforms are needed to get back to a level of sustainable access for qualified consumers.

New mortgage lending standards were put into place this month by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to protect borrowers from the risky home loan products that contributed to the foreclosure crisis of the last decade.

He added that in a fully private market, financial institutions with FDIC - backed deposits would focus more on optimizing their profits in a noncompetitive banking industry, and potentially fostering new, risky mortgage products that place taxpayers at risk, rather than products that would be in the best interests of consumers and the nation's economy.