Translation of "Fremdkapitalanteil" in English

Leverage was lower in several sectors.

The expense of this repurchase exercise was split into equity and liability components.

The main characteristic is the high debt ratio to finance the acquisition or participation.

The repurchase expense was split into an equity component and a liability component.

This amount was divided into an equity portion and a liabilities portion.

The scheme offers discounted funding to all banks, even to those banks which are deleveraging.

Our debt ratio is 52.5 %.

While the equity portion is provided solely by ourselves, the outside capital portion is financed via traditional bank loans.

The liability component was measured at fair value, whereby transaction costs directly attributable to the bond issue were included in the calculation.

There is an ever-present risk that the property market might one day collapse, though banks would emerge in better shape than have banks in the US and the UK, because much speculative investment has been funded with cash, or with only modest leverage.

Big banks’ executives often want to increase their institutions’ leverage, typically because they have various forms of guarantee – in particular, deposit insurance and access to central-bank financing on advantageous terms.

The company’s debt/asset ratio leapt from 18% to 90% as company reserves for long-term development – essential in the telecoms industry – were used to service the loan.

The hard part of fully realizing potential growth is shifting the composition of domestic demand from consumption to investment without adding leverage.

The use of a systematically high level of leverage allows AIFM to have an impact on the markets in which they invest which may be a multiple of the equity capital of the fund.

Banks have been the main source of investment finance in the EU but many of them are now primarily engaged in deleveraging and are thus not able to fulfil their normal role.

It furthermore foresees that AIFM employing leverage on a systematic basis above a defined threshold will be required to disclose aggregate leverage in all forms, and the main sources of leverage to the home authority of the AIFM.

The Revision will cover leverage ratio, dynamic provisioning, liquidity, procyclicality/buffers, definition of capital, systemically important financial institutions and counterparty credit risks.

However, the FTT might be an appropriate tool to reduce excessive risk-taking to the extent that short-term trading and highly leveraged derivative trading creates systemic risks.

In addition to these common provisions, the proposal foresees a number of specific, tailored provisions which will only apply to AIFM that employ certain techniques or strategies when managing their AIF (for instance, systematic use of a high degree of leverage, acquisition of control of companies) and will ensure an appropriate degree of transparency with respect to these techniques.

Given the need to enhance access to financing on capital markets for companies (in particular SMEs) at a time of bank deleveraging, a review of this directive is important.

It seems that some banks still seek to reduce leverage by constraining their lending in some segments of firms and households, rather than by raising new capital.