Sentences with phrase «on bank balance sheets»

Running the printing press like never before has indeed produced a mountain of cash on bank balance sheets, but they aren't lending it out much to consumers and business.

These positions are often not reflected on bank balance sheets.

The leverage that was once visible on bank balance sheets may now be disguised as a net position held at a clearing firm.

People are simply not paying interest or principal on money they've borrowed and that's putting immense pressure on bank balance sheets.

They decided that because the insurance option would leave the bad stuff on the bank balance sheets, it wouldn't give the banks the additional liquidity they need.

The COP report estimates that a substantial portion of real estate - backed securities and whole loans remain on bank balance sheets.

Much as REIT stock prices have fallen, and CMBS prices have fallen, the impact has yet to be realized on commercial whole loans on bank balance sheets.

We have seen cash levels on bank balance sheets triple over the last year, while lending has steadily declined.

These ratios were used by the authorities to control the second - round effects on bank balance sheets of exogenous flows of liquidity from either the balance of payments or fiscal policy.

It suggests that China has overinvested beyond its capacity to utilize these investments economically, and so there are hidden losses on bank balance sheets created by the failure to write down physical capital to its true value.

The economy would «borrow its way out of debt,» re-inflating asset prices for real estate, stocks and bonds so as to deter home foreclosures and the ensuing wipeout of collateral on bank balance sheets.

With constraints on bank balance sheets, banks are rationing their lending and facilitating debt deals, Mr Barker told delegates at the annual Council of Major Superannuation Funds conference in Brisbane.

And everyone acknowledges that it was the sharp mid-decade run - up in interest rates that burst the bubble and caused the collapse in US housing prices and in the value of those mortgage - backed securities that are still wreaking havoc on bank balance sheets all around the world.

As the price of college has climbed rapidly over the last decade so has the sum of student loan debt floating on bank balance sheets, as shown by our statistics.

In the banking system, with borrowers having few projects expected to be profitable, trillions of dollars of bank reserves would also simply sit idle on bank balance sheets.

Unfortunately, there's not that much to say, yet... It's obvious there's $ 10s of billions of non - performing / distressed assets scattered across the continent, mostly located on bank balance sheets which are urgently in need of further de-leveraging.

20) Echoing point 17, we face real problems on bank balance sheets from commercial real estate lending.

Most of these loans — now rotting as delinquencies and defaults rise — remain stuck on bank balance sheets.

Despite being a key spark that ignited the financial crisis and the headline focus of several of the most significant government programs — such as TARP, TALF and PPIP — these troubled assets continue to weigh on both bank balance sheets and the overall health of the financial system.

One continuing uncertainty is whether the troubled assets that remain on bank balance sheets can again become the trigger for instability» [my emphasis].

Bad loans comprise a staggering 9.86 percent of all loans on bank balance sheets, the highest level in nearly two decades.

One continuing uncertainty is whether the troubled assets that remain on bank balance sheets can again become the trigger for instability

The analysis described below focuses on Basel III's impact on single family residential loans that are made to consumers and remain on bank balance sheets.

The Basel III regulations directly address single family residential loans that are made to consumers and remain on bank balance sheets.