To avert a repetition, securities held by banks must carry a much higher risk rating than they currently do.

Its bond markets remain small, and trading volume is low, because the majority of bonds are held to maturity by domestic investors.

That left the financial institutions that held mortgage backed securities in much weaker condition, and several failed.

(t) UNIDROIT Study Group on Harmonized Substantive Rules regarding Securities Held with an Intermediary (Budapest, Hungary 18 22 September 2004)

(d) The transfer of security rights in sale, loan, holding of or agreement to repurchase securities or other financial assets or instruments held with an intermediary

(e) The transfer of security rights in, sale, loan or holding of or agreement to repurchase securities or other financial assets or instruments held with an intermediary

Insecure Securities

Note to the Working Group The Working Group may wish to consider whether security rights in directly held securities, whether certificated or uncertificated, should be addressed in the Guide.

Investment pooling has permitted Treasury to limit very short term deposits to approximately 20 to 25 per cent of investments, allowing the remainder to be held in marketable fixed income securities.

The hearings also led to passage of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Securing Synthetic Securities

(ii) Securities Act

(b) The proceeds are held by the assignor for the benefit of the assignee separately and are reasonably identifiable from the assets of the assignor, such as in the case of a separate deposit or securities account containing only proceeds consisting of cash or securities.

It is also important to emphasize the political stability and public maturity that allowed aparty whose program called for rationalization of spending to win an absolute majority in the parliamentary election held six months ago.

a transaction involving securities

America absorbs Chinese imports, pays China in dollars, and China holds dollars, amassing 2.5 trillion in foreign exchange reserves, much of it held in US Treasury securities.

In that sense, maturity would also ensure consensus.

Because financial institutions held much of these securities, their market values declined as well, leaving balance sheets in need of restructuring, particularly given their highly leveraged capital structures.

Some commercial banking activities are closer to securities trading.

Economists like to subtract the nominal government bond yield from the inflation indexed bond yield of the same maturity to get a market estimate of the inflation rate from now to that maturity date.

Weak Labor, Strong Securities Markets

The transition from the elections to the installation of the new coalition Government was held in a smooth and democratic manner that showed increasing maturity on behalf of the Provisional Institutions and the Kosovar political parties.

Plan B would extend the maturity of Greece s debt.

To the extent that executive compensation is tied to the value of specified securities, such pay could be tied to a broader basket of securities, not only common shares.

D5 (bank accounts and securities) losses

China usually holds US Treasuries to maturity and re invests the principal and proceeds.

To achieve it we need commitment, political maturity, dialogue and vision from all involved.

Only one in a thousand leatherback hatchlings will reach maturity.

But an important disadvantage of derivatives is their short maturity.

B2B relationships usually have longer maturity times than B2C relationships.

The SDP action plans are at various stages of maturity.

Financial globalization meant that banks no longer held assets like mortgages on their books, but packaged them in asset backed securities that were sold to investors in capital markets worldwide, thereby distributing risk more widely.

And, if the downward spiral in house prices continues, the value of mortgage backed securities held by financial institutions around the world will continue to decline, affecting the supply of credit far beyond the US.

The substantive law issues relating to security and other rights in securities held with an intermediary are dealt with in a draft Convention being prepared by the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (Unidroit).

The transition from the successful elections held in October 2004 to the installation of the new coalition Government, headed by the Prime Minister of Kosovo, Ramush Haradinaj, after only one month of negotiation among Kosovo's political forces, evidenced growing political maturity.

Moreover, a maturity extension resolves rollover risk for the coming decades.

You can sense its maturity and rising ambition in each episode.

At the moment, the yield to maturity of the ten year US Treasury bond is 3.76 .

The decisions of COP 6 reflect the fact that the Convention process has come to maturity.

The market for such securities has now vanished.

True, major commercial banks, like Citibank and Bank of America, tottered, but they were not at risk because of their securities underwriting for corporate clients or their securities trading divisions, but because of how they (mis)handled mortgage securities.

However the system of vocational training has not reached maturity in Pakistan.

And what was true of China was also true of other emerging market countries receiving capital inflows. These countries foreign reserves, mainly held in US securities, topped 8 trillion at their peak last year.

Alternatively, low interest rates could push her (or her pension fund) to buy risky long maturity bonds.

Fewer choices are sometimes the hallmark of maturity, and not only in politics.