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- verb Present participle of
collateralize .
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Examples
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Agincourt is hoping to make the bond more appealing to investors by collateralizing it with property assets in Sydney and Perth that it is negotiating to buy.
Flirtation in Yuan Bonds Cools Off Lingling Wei 2011
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Agincourt is hoping to make the bond more appealing to investors by collateralizing it with property assets in Sydney and Perth that it is negotiating to buy.
Flirtation in Yuan Bonds Cools Off Lingling Wei 2011
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Private universities are forbidden from collateralizing any assets, even for the university's development, though the same law requires them to build expensive campuses.
Bolshie Bangladesh K. Anis Ahmed 2010
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What we now know is that the threat to the financial system is much greater if thousands of contracts could be terminated and other parties tried to sell the assets that are collateralizing them all at the same time.
Bankruptcy Reform Will Limit Bailouts Thomas Jackson And David Skeel 2010
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Whereas once these trades went totally unregulated, Geithner would require that they be "reported to trade repositories and be subject to robust standards" for documenting and collateralizing, among other new rules.
Wall Street Digs In 2009
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They may not matter at all individually, but their concerns are well-grounded, and dismissing them suggests a pretty damning lack of good judgment - the same kind of judgment that insisted that collateralizing sub-prime mortgages and turning them into SIVs was a no-brainer and virtually risk-free.
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In such cases, clients obtain financing from banks, collateralizing the bank loans by assignment of the credit balances from CIT.
NY Fed, FDIC See Threats Posed By CIT Donna Childs 2009
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They're going to make their bad loans good by collateralizing them after the fact with all of this land and somebody is going to end up with title to twelve and half billion acres.
The SCAM behind NAIS - "Our Land: Collateral for the National Debt" 2008
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On our very first visit he was explaining the World Bank, the International Monetary fund and how the world bankers planned on collateralizing the world debt with land.
The SCAM behind NAIS - "Our Land: Collateral for the National Debt" 2008
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If a tree falls in the woods and nobody hears it fall, does that stop Goldman, or Merrill, or some other investment bank from collateralizing the perceived sound and selling it as a hedge against some statistical probability worked out by an autistic 'quant' on loan from Bellevue working on the proprietary trading desk?
Max Keiser: Merrill Lynch Smokes its Own Belly Button Lint 2008
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