Sentences with phrase «vast banks of»

I tried to point out that the modern cold chain is a huge energy burden,» powering refrigerated shipping containers, trucks, warehouses and vast banks of fridges in the supermarket selling prepared foods.»

Bitcoin investors are on alert to see whether Beijing will take further action against cryptocurrencies, such as shutting down bitcoin «mines», the energy - hungry operations that create bitcoin by solving mathematical problems using vast banks of computers.

Multinationals, argues Horgan, are a vast bank of information on the policies of other nations: «The typical Chinese approach to policy making is to look around the world for best practices in policy in a particular field, and then to cherry pick those that seem to apply the most neatly in the Chinese environment.»

Doing so opened up a vast bank of viable samples for gene expression profiling, from which Dr. Golub and colleagues made some interesting findings.

A vast bank of academic literature has been published on the subject; systematic strategies have been encoded and funded to capture it.

Simultaneously, Ritchie has been creating a uniquely dynamic digital world built from his drawings, which allows him to film inside this world using a vast bank of images and narratives to inform increasingly sophisticated videos which can then be deployed into these collaborations.

It records and documents, operating like an eye; watching, following, committing fragmentary items of interest to a vast bank of images.

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This is a material threat given the vast quantities of money that central banks are printing to keep the banking and government sectors from defaulting on their monumental financial obligations.

The bank said the «vast majority» of its clients remained supportive, but the situation still drew comparisons to the 2008 failure of Lehman and the resulting global financial crisis.

Adani Group, controlled by the billionaire Gautam Adani, said it will now plan to finance the vast Carmichael coal project on its own, but the company faces an uphill struggle as both governments and major banks adopt a harder line towards new coal projects, citing the impact of coal - fired power on climate change.

«Huw van Steenis's vast experience of both the asset management and banking industry, together with his track record of taking the long - term view on the major structural forces driving the economy, will be invaluable,» BoE Governor Mark Carney said.

The addition of an individual with her vast experience and stellar reputation represents The Private Bank's deep commitment to Women & Wealth, a key component of our core strategy, which not only includes a strong focus on serving women clients but also represents our focus on recruiting top talented women to join our organization.»

«The large number of database query incidents, which involve previously collected communications, confirms long - standing suspicions that the NSA's vast data banks — with code names such as MARINA, PINWALE and XKEYSCORE — house a considerable volume of information about Americans.»

«The six largest banks in Canada co-operated fully with FCAC and we are encouraged that the review found no widespread mis - selling and that banks get this right the vast majority of the time,» association president Neil Parmenter said in a statement.

This has led to a vast increase in the amount of property that is currently owned by banks and therefore, an increase in properties available for auction and short sale at incredible discounts.

Small banks continue to make up the vast majority of the financial services industry — 98 % of banks have fewer than $ 10 billion of assets, while 89 % are smaller than $ 1 billion.

The vast majority of funds comes through traditional channels and the banking system.

Meanwhile, Congress has allowed Wall Street banks and pharmaceutical companies to accumulate the sort of vast market power that invites wrongdoing.

The government also has pumped vast sums of money into these banks by letting them speculate against the central bank's futile attempts to defend the ruble's exchange rate, a policy whose main effect has been to subsidize capital flight.

It seems bizarre that the most reasonable understanding of why the 2008 bank crisis did not require a vast public subsidy for Wall Street occurred at Monday's Republican presidential debate on June 13, by none other than Congressional Tea Party leader Michele Bachmann — who had boasted in a Wall Street Journal interview two days earlier, on Saturday, that she voted against the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) «both times.»

Concerns over Mr. Corzine's vast holdings, most of which were tied up in Goldman stock, intensified after he was appointed to the influential Senate Banking Committee.

Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada who now heads up the Bank of England, legitimized the concept of the carbon bubble by confirming that the «vast majority of [fossil fuel] reserves are unburnable» if we are to avoid dangerous climate disruption.

This week, a distinguished panel of central bankers and academics gathered at the Brookings Institution to discuss the vast implications of digital currencies on the banks that make the world go «round.

Browder said that to protect the vast amounts of money, some of which he said was in American banks, Putin launched a campaign to repeal the Magnitsky Act, a U.S. law that imposed sanctions on Russian officials whom the U.S. held responsible for the 2009 death of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Russian jail after being retained by Browder to investigate corruption.

c: Vast majority of Indians are not adept at making transactions online and have a distrust in using their card and bank details for purchase.

Accenting the positive, Susquehanna points out that Stratasys» long history of losing vast amounts of money could be money in the bank for an acquirer.

Today, in contrast, the Fed presides over a vast portfolio, with assets consisting mainly of long - term Treasury securities and mortgage - backed securities, instead of the short - term Treasuries it once held; and that portfolio is funded more by banks» holdings of substantial excess reserves than by circulating Federal Reserve notes.

The vast majority of respondents believe that investing in Bitcoin using a credit card is worth it, despite the bank interest three out of four assured that investments in bitcoin offset interest expenses.

...» It might well be that the major effect of the panic of 1873 was not to initiate a great depression, but to cause bankruptcies in overinflated banks and in railroads riding on the tide of vast government subsidy and bank speculation.»

Banks are sitting on such vast quantities of excess reserves — paid to do so by the Federal Reserve as it pays a relative high interest rate on reserves — that the monetary base is larger than M1.

The vast majority of lenders, including the big banks, tend to secure loans against an asset.

Martin Liebi has vast senior management experience in the banking and financial sectors with Swiss and international clients in all parts of Switzerland.

Deploying a vast number of veteran dealmakers who are renowned for their talent for assembling sophisticated, cross-border mergers, Goldman Sachs advised clients on 368 deals worth $ 710.6 billion in 2013, a higher value than any other investment bank, according to Dealogic.

Rather, it is a byproduct of the world's central banks, having intervened on vast scale to deal with the economic travails of the last several years, introducing uncertainty and even a little chaos as they start to contemplate how and when the era of easy money might end.

In the United States before the Civil War, the vast majority of paper currency was issued by private state - chartered banks.

At this point, the vast majority of people my age — being honest, the dividing line seems to be around 45 years old — roll their eyes and, in a perfectly rational manner, argue that a currency is usually boring and backed up by meaningful institutions such as central banks.

When in 2017 Bank of America asked millennial homeowners about their purchases, the vast majority expressed satisfaction.

Even though it is considered a bank, the vast majority of the risk in the GS business is institutional and is contained in the non-bank broker - dealer operations.

Duncan has 37 years finance experience, the vast majority of which has been spent in Switzerland in the field of private banking, with a particular focus on UK resident non-UK domiciled clients.

Although it is possible to obtain government - sponsored mortgage products like FHA loans at Capital One, the vast majority of the bank's home loans are conventional mortgages, with the standard choice of a 20 % down payment or mortgage insurance premiums on your monthly bill.

Alternatively, we can say in a world where national currencies and central bank currencies are no longer trustworthy because they've been created in vast sums and continue to be created to the tune of like $ 300 billion a month or more.

So the vast majority of my efforts are focused on finding these banks.

According to the bank, the impact of the global economic downturn could be felt for decades by the vast number of people who raided their...

According to a PwC, the vast majority (82 %) of Hong Kong banks and other financial institutions are looking to enter into some form of partnership with a fintech business in the next three to five years.

The central bank's apparent reassurance came after China's financial system showed fresh signs of stress on Monday, with short - term borrowing costs for banks soaring on heavy holiday - induced demand for cash and rising worries over the vast shadow - banking sector.

«The countries that the vast majorities of these immigrants are coming from have entrepreneurship in their DNA, they're merchants, they're traders, they're creators and they bring that to Canada — and that's not necessarily an ethos that's existed here en masse,» Banks said.

Its balance sheet is strong with ample liquidity, the bank is run by a management team focused on maximizing returns, and it pays out the vast majority of its earnings to shareholders.

Soon, Banque Générale had issued vast quantities of bank notes even though they did not have an equivalent amount of gold and silver - based legal tender for everyone who eventually wished to redeem their notes.

With vast sums changing hands for everything from apps to chocolate, it's no surprise that The Essence of Enterprise Report, published by HSBC Private Banking in 2017, found that a full 39 per cent of business owners around the world were considering an exit in the near future.

It would have led to Israel's permanent annexation of 8 to 12 percent of the West Bank as well as a large area of settlements around Jerusalem, plus the long - term «lease» to Israel of the Jordan River Valley, plus Israeli «security control» (which is another way of saying «continued occupation») of the vast swathes of territory on which lie the bypass roads connecting the settlements.