Translation of "Excessive leverage" in German

The directive will also address excessive reliance on leverage and introduce an effective liquidity regime.

The leverage ratio will continue to serve as a back-stop against excessive leverage;

This also leads to the built-up of excessive leverage in the financial system.

Similar to the fall of Barings Bank this was accomplished by driving up company earnings through excessive leverage and risk.

Any new regulation must also help prevent pro-cyclical impacts and excessive leverage.

It will bring forward proposals in the autumn on the new supervisory framework and on issues including: liquidity risk and excessive leverage;

It is also intended to introduce a leverage ratio to curb excessive use of leverage within the banking system, and other supplementary countercyclical measures such as the creation of capital buffers in favourable economic periods.

The years leading up to the 2008/2009 financial crisis were characterised by an excessive build up in banks' balance sheets in relation to their capital (i.e. excessive leverage).

It may be instructive to recall that in other protracted post-crisis episodes, including the Great Depression of the 1930s, economic recovery without resolution of the fundamental problems of excessive leverage and weak banks usually proved shallow and difficult to sustain.

Kashkari is now proposing exactly the right approach: to hold public conferences and extensive discussions to evaluate whether large banks should be broken up, whether they (and other financial institutions) should be forced to fund themselves with more equity and less debt, or whether there should be a debt tax to discourage excessive leverage.

If it is supported by excessive leverage, effectively shifting future consumption to the present, China could face a significant slowdown – or even a major crisis.

With little incentive to manufacture “structured investment vehicles,” few Spanish banks created them, thereby avoiding excessive leverage.

Crises like those we have recently endured were initially driven by excessive debt and leverage among private-sector agents – households, banks and financial institutions, corporate firms.

But we should realize that there are fundamental causes for the imbalance on the US side as well, such as over-consumption financed by excessive leverage and high budget deficits.

Those challenges – including weaknesses in the real economy and the private sector, overcapacity, excessive leverage, and high housing prices – are rooted largely in the financial sector’s mounting problems and the failure of China’s leaders to address them.

When the global crisis erupted in 2008, there was no regulatory framework to protect the cross-border networks, and large vulnerabilities, in the form of excessive leverage and foreign exchange, were exposed.

Rather than using this month’s National Congress of the Communist Party as a catalyst for reform, China kicks the can down the road, continuing on a path of excessive leverage and overcapacity.

Thanks in part to research by Reinhart and Rogoff, we know that excessive leverage is unsustainable, and that restoring balance takes time.

Rock-bottom borrowing costs also spur excessive reliance on leverage, weakening the will to undertake reforms needed to boost potential growth – and further exacerbating the economy’s vulnerability to a shift in interest rates or investor sentiment.

Regulators have recently woken up to the incentives for excessive leverage in this sector – and to the risks that such leverage poses to lenders and the broader economy.

And a slowdown in productivity growth, together with excessive leverage and persistent public-sector underinvestment, may be undermining medium-term potential economic growth.

After all, the main source of systemic instability in financial systems is excessive leverage – and the reckless lending that it enables – by deposit-taking institutions.

Those mistakes led to an underpricing of risk and the resulting increase in excessive leverage.

Moreover, financial crises triggered by excessive debt and leverage in the private sector are followed after a few years by sovereign defaults and/or high inflation to wipe out the real value of public debts.