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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overcollateralize .
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Examples
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The reason the total amount of bonds issued was $80 billion while the mortgage amount was $84 billion was that the bonds were "overcollateralized" as a form of protection to investors.
Thomas Adams and Yves Smith: FCIC Report Misses Central Issue: Why Was There Demand for Bad Mortgage Loans? Thomas Adams 2011
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On the other hand, the assets were valued at Friday's depressed levels, and the funding is overcollateralized, meaning Bear provided more than a dollar's worth of assets for each dollar the Fed lent.
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The bonds are usually overcollateralized and there are strict rules, often set out in legislation, on t he quality of the assets that can go into them.
Covered Bonds Not a Panacea Richard Barley 2011
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Some credit investors are shifting cash from senior unsecured debt to covered bonds; given that covered bonds have to be overcollateralized and can only use certain assets, this may exacerbate the funding gap some banks face.
Covered Bonds Not a Panacea Richard Barley 2011
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Covered bonds, for all their benefits, cannot wholly replace other forms of funding, as they must be overcollateralized; indeed, banks may need to issue senior debt to fund the overcollateralization.
Safer banks, insurers pose recovery threat Richard Barley 2011
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Credit risk is very low in both programs; in particular, the TALF program requires that loans be overcollateralized and is further protected by capital provided by the Treasury.
Dan's Great Question about Bernanke, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2010
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There is anecdotal evidence that more investors are moving into overcollateralized loans trading at deep discounts, especially given heightened equity-market volatility.
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The funds normally limit their exposure to individual repurchase agreement counterparties to less than 25% of the portfolio, provided such agreement is appropriately overcollateralized by U.S.
Fitch Affirms 3 Dreyfus U.S. Institutional Prime Money Market Funds at 'AAAmmf' - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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The fund normally limits its exposure to individual repurchase agreement counterparties to less than 25% of the portfolio, provided such agreement is appropriately overcollateralized.
Fitch Affirms 2 Dreyfus U.S. Institutional Treasury Money Market Funds at 'AAAmmf' - Yahoo! Finance 2011
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Only a few days before MF Global's bankruptcy, CME examiners verified that MF Global's segregated customer fund account was overcollateralized.
Reuters: Top News 2012
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