Insider selling, commercial risk and the inevitable problems new products face may be giving investors pause.
The High Court judges ruled that shareholders had taken a commercial risk with their investment.
However, an increasingly difficult payor environment is likely to make this approach ever more challenging, materially elevating the commercial risk.
These are to be repaid with interest through a levy on sales, but the governments share some of the commercial risk, so Airbus is getting capital more cheaply than it might on the open market.
The greatest economic risk for commercial property owners is recession.
Then, each critical-infrastructure operator would have a third-party, commercial auditor assess its cybersecurity risk mitigation plans.
The quirks of the different accounting rules turn on its head the idea that investment banks are bigger risk takers than commercial banks--hence riskier investments.
So, in order to try to capture another tenth of a percentage point of return, it may invest in bonds or commercial paper that carry additional risk.
For the same reason, he argues, the risk inherent in commercial banks' proprietary trading activities is not warranted and should not be backstopped by the safety net provided to ensure deposit-taking institutions' core activities.
In particular, a financial aid package for Poland should avoid transferring credit risk from private commercial banks to Western governments and taxpayers as a way of covering and thereby encouraging loans from private credit markets.
That is why governments and commercial banks should be encouraged to risk lending alongside the Fund.
Investment bankers earn far more than commercial bankers and view themselves as risk-takers, not as mere lenders.
Equity markets in the long run reward smart risk and punish reckless risk, just as commercial markets reward desirable consumer offerings and reject cynical ones.
The problem with this Fed solution is that banks saw no reason to make commercial loans where they had credit risk and had to actually work for their money.
Obviously, Moscow is desperate to broaden its access to hard currency resources and is frustrated by the refusal of U.S. money center banks and other commercial lenders to assume any new risk in doing so.
Trading businesses exhibit high reliance on short-term wholesale funding and to varying degrees what Fitch views as more volatile earnings than commercial banking, and with more opaque risk.
These various actions appear to have improved the functioning of the commercial paper market, as rates and risk spreads have come down and the average maturities of issuance have increased.
Small regional banks, less diversified than their larger brethren and more exposed to riskier asset classes such as home-equity lines of credit and commercial real estate, are most at risk of running out of capital-raising options.
By serving as a backup source of liquidity for borrowers, the Fed's commercial paper facility was aimed at reducing investor and borrower concerns about "rollover risk, " the risk that a borrower could not raise new funds to repay maturing commercial paper.
As markets and regulators begin to digest the massive failure of MF Global, many have come out to call for stricter enforcement of the Volcker Rule, which aims to separate proprietary trading from commercial banking in order to minimize systemic risk.
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But protesters argue the loan is putting a masterpiece at risk for the sake of a commercial event.
There is a risk that some euro-zone commercial banks could face heavy losses on their exposure to the Greek economy.
The worst mistakes of this crisis were arguably made in relatively simple areas of retail and commercial banking from the concentration of risk in the corporate-loan book of HBOS to Wachovia's kamikaze acquisition of Golden West, a Californian lender stuffed full of mortgage-shaped grenades.
Some 1.85 million homes and 185, 000 commercial properties and five million people are now at risk from flooding in Britain.
According to a survey in the early 1990s, only 26% of commercial farmers used any sort of hedge against price risk.
It concerns credit risk, which previously loomed small with commercial paper, because the issuers carried high ratings and the maturities were so short.
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The commercial real estate sector across Europe poses another major risk.
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Commercial banks are continuing to shed corporate-credit risk using default swaps.
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