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September 17, 2008

Exposure

exposure, risk exposure (noun) - the risk of losing money on an investment or an asset, the amount that could tbe lost, the amount of loans that has been lent

have exposure
have an exposure

avoid exposure
increase exposure
limit exposure
reduce exposure
heavy exposure
high exposure
large exposure

exposure to bad debt
reduce exposure
reduce their high exposure to bad debt

minimal exposure
minor exposure of local banks

foreign exchange risk exposure
country risk exposure
country risk exposure review committee

monitor and regulate the ratio of risk exposure to capital
doing anything might risk exposure
their risk exposure is continually changing as they buy and sell large quantities of bonds
permissible risk exposure
the risk exposure that the firm can accept

limits to risk exposure
set limits to risk exposure
minimal Thai bank exposure to American financial meltdown

outstanding loan exposure

overseas exposure


Example sentences:

* There is minimal Thai bank exposure to American financial meltdown.

* Thailand's 14 commercial banks have outstanding loan exposure totalling 4.3 billion baht to the failed US investment bank Lehman Brothers.

* He said the overall impact of Lehman's bankruptcy on the Thai financial sector would be minor, considering the small amount of total exposure of local banks.

* The company has plans to reduce their high exposure to bad debt.

* The bank has a $3 billion exposure to the Brazilian economy.

* The bank accepts the foreign exchange risk exposure.

* Though an Interagency Country Risk Exposure Review Committee was set up in 1978 to assemble the facts, no one insisted that the banks took notice of them or acted accordingly.

* To do anything at all would be to risk exposure.

* Instead the Bank stated its intention to monitor and regulate the ratio of risk exposure to capital.

* The Bank discusses regularly with each GEMM about the size of transactions in which it is committed to deal and about the risk exposure that it can accept.

* There is no single requirement for capital but permissible risk exposure is governed for each GEMM by the amount of capital that it has.

* Market makers, GEMMs notably but also dealers in sterling eurobonds, are continually buying and selling large volumes of bonds and their risk exposure is continually changing.

* To ensure this, minimum standards of competence are set, proper records have to be kept, limits to risk exposure, disclosure rules, and a disciplinary system.

* The acquisitions made by UK companies through the 1980s, particularly within the US, raised the total overseas exposure at the corporate earnings level to around 50%.

* The agreement, under which the government expected to save $1,000 million, included options for the creditor banks (i) to make new bond loans carrying a 15-year maturity and seven-year grace period before payment of interest which would be equivalent to 20 per cent of their exposure; (ii) to offer 30 per cent discounts on bonds for loans swaps in return for guarantees on principal and interest payments and additional payments after six years if oil prices rose beyond a specified level (thought to be $26 per barrel); (iii) to cut interest rates to 5 per cent for two years before gradually raising them; or (iv) to allow the Venezuelan government to buy back existing loans at larger discounts (estimated to be 60-65 per cent) should the banks be willing to take the loss.


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