| The new Basel III agreement is also forcing banks to deleverage by imposing higher capital requirements. |
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| The first is the banks' own efforts to deleverage, either to shed money-losing operations and assets or to meet stiffer capital requirements. |
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| As it is already the case today, the deleverage of the bonds will be managed by a centralized dedicated team. |
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| Another is the need to deleverage in order to shore up capital and meet higher capital requirements. |
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| As they struggled to deleverage, their interest in new borrowing and spending evaporated. |
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| Consumers are still inclined to deleverage, while we think the sector's valuation is demanding. |
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| Growing their way out of trouble will prove difficult as economies deleverage. |
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| With almost EUR 42 billion of asset disposals between the beginning of 2009 and October 2010, Dexia is ahead of its deleverage plan. |
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| Unless US consumers deleverage, We think Asia in general will need to find new customers to sell to. |
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| Access to credit has been sharply reduced as banks deleverage and meet first demands in home markets. |
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| Banks, which are themselves being forced to deleverage, are limiting their financing to hedge funds. |
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| We were able in recent months to benefit from more favourable market conditions in our efforts to improve Dexia's liquidity situation and deleverage the Group's balance sheet. |
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| In order to free the necessary capital, i.e. to deleverage, even fundamentally sound banks were constrained in further lending which would bind additional capital. |
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| Consequently, countries whose evaluation of their public finances' sustainability was somewhat negative before the crisis are often the ones where private agents are now less constrained by a requirement to deleverage. |
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| While an increase in inflation could certainly help to deleverage an economy, it would also entail the cost of undermining public trust by inducing an ad hoc redistribution of wealth from savers to borrowers. |
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| Faced with falling asset prices, households and companies then attempted to deleverage. |
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| A fiscal stimulus must therefore aim at groups or sectors in the economy having the lowest propensity to deleverage. |
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| The transaction complements the ongoing deleverage of UK loans from the wider UK portfolio transferred from Laiki. |
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| The need to deleverage means that these countries have become much more open to foreign capital. |
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| The transaction matches the current deleverage of UK loans from the wider UK portfolio transferred from Laiki. |
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| But when the crisis forced households to deleverage, the underlying inequality-driven stagnation may have reasserted itself. Over to OccamYet deleveraging alone may be enough to explain the sluggish growth of recent years. |
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| Financial strength is improving in the first three sectors as they deleverage, but this has been at the expense of a serious deterioration in public finances. The second cause is psychological, rather than fundamental. |
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| The relative strength of Canadian banks means that they do not currently face the same pressures to deleverage as their international counterparts. |
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| In order to prevent a passing on of the credit crunch to the real economy, banks therefore had to be incited not to deleverage but to seek capital from the state. |
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| Credit conditions have tightened significantly and, recent recapitalisation notwithstanding, the banking sector is expected to continue to deleverage, putting a brake on lending. |
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| Any place where we were able to exercise a measure of control, we did so, diligently working to further reduce costs, improve our manufacturing platform and deleverage the Company's balance sheet. |
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| The combination of persistently low commodity prices and subdued global growth will maintain disinflationary pressures, weigh on revenues and hamper attempts to deleverage. |
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| Proceeds from the sale were utilized to fully deleverage at ASEC Cement and partially deleverage ASEC Holding, with the balance being distributed to shareholders. |
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