collateral
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“But if you’re a debt investor relying on compute power as collateral? I mean, historically, that’s an asset that’s had the shelf life of lettuce.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Additionally, they will include $60 million in unfunded commitments and all the collateral underlying its recently issued BlackRock DLF 2026-C CLO, a $535.8 million collateralized loan obligation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Treasury bonds serve as vital collateral for short-term institutional liquidity, and Treasury yields set the benchmark borrowing rates for trillions of dollars in global debt, from mortgages to corporate bonds.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
Earlier this year, civil rights attorneys deposed two ICE deportation officers and learned the agency had shifted from conducting targeted enforcement operations to making collateral arrests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Far from collateral, these sanctions can be the most damaging and painful aspect of a criminal conviction.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
Evergrande's offshore debt restructuring involves a total of $31.7 billion, which include bonds, collaterals and repurchase obligations.
From Reuters ● Aug. 18, 2023
Fortunately, our bodies are well protected against this kind of loss and can quickly grow new vessels, called collaterals, that carry blood around the bypass to the starving tissues beyond.
From New York Times ● Nov. 4, 2016
For the most part, the parents, grandparents, and collaterals are persons strongly preoccupied with abstractions of a scientific, literary, or artistic nature, and limited in genuine interest in people.”
From Slate ● May 1, 2013
The audience’s own knee ligaments screamed in sympathy — medial collaterals fraying like hemp rope.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2012
The authority for the truth thereof being derived from the same Authentick Records and Tradition on which is grounded the above-written Genealogie of their male collaterals.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by John Willcock
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