(n.) A person who holds the bonds of a public or private corporation for the payment of money at a certain time.
Example Sentences:
(1) About a third of those bondholders are ordinary Italians.
(2) Last Monday, INM negotiated a standstill agreement with its bondholders which gave the company another six weeks to repay a €200m debt.
(3) Private sector bondholders, many of them German banks who lent hand over fist to Greece in the runup to the crisis, were largely made good; workers have suffered wage cuts as the government struggles to make repayments to its bailout creditors.
(4) But de Jager said the French plan lets the banks off too lightly, and unless finance ministers impose bigger losses on them, Europe would be "converting private debt into public debt" by lending Greece more money from European taxpayers to pay back bondholders.
(5) "Forecasts suggest the stress tests may reveal a hole of 4 billion to 5 billion euros ($5.5 billion to $6.9 billion), a sum the government believes it can raise through its own cash reserves of 3.6 billion euros, by burning junior bondholders for some 500 million euros and, if necessary, tapping financial markets.
(6) The first stage in INM's restructuring, a debt-for-equity swap, came into effect earlier this month , leaving bondholders with 46% of the company, worth €122m.
(7) INM had already reached an agreement in principle with the group, known as the Ad Hoc Committee of Bondholders, involving a debt-for-equity swap, a rights issue and the continued raising of funds through an asset sell-off.
(8) The NAO said the decision helped save around £1.5bn in future interest payments and ensured these bondholders contributed to the costs of nationalisation.
(9) O'Brien's advisers believe bondholders can be persuaded to take a smaller stake in the business because they will be receiving stock in a company that has a greater chance of success as it will have retained one of its most prized businesses.
(10) In the earlier deal, corporate bondholders and PIBS holders were told to expect losses of about 50% but that has been rejected as too punitive.
(11) Good news: Germany and France have drawn up a sensible plan to ensure that funding and debt crises in the eurozone can be tackled more easily in future, mainly by forcing bondholders to shoulder their share of financial pain from 2013 onwards.
(12) This foresees a €100bn cut or 50% haircut in bondholders' holdings of Greek debt, topped up with €30bn of EU funding, to cut the country's €360bn debt to 120% of GDP by 2020.
(13) Sutherland said the board had considered all the options and agreed to commit £1bn of the Co-op group's funds to cover bad debts in return for a debt for equity swap by bondholders.
(14) Merkel told Greek television that the second rescue package, worth €109bn, might have to be renegotiated amid suggestions this would entail bondholders accepting "haircuts" – write-offs on the debts they are owed – of up to 50% rather than the 21% agreed in July.
(15) The hurdles that have to be jumped are high: there will be four separate votes of bondholders and preference shareholders, and the bank says that if any one of these doesn't succeed, the rescue will fail.
(16) As he issued an apology to customers for the string of scandals to hit the bank, Booker said he was confident the extra money would be found after discussions with shareholders, including the Co-operative Group and the bondholders which backed last year's £1.5bn fund raising.
(17) In June the Co-operative Group outlined plans to list shares in its bank for the first time in a complicated proposal under which bondholders were to take losses while the group would pour £1bn into the bank, some £500m through selling off insurance businesses and another £500m by issuing new bonds to bondholders.
(18) The presumption is that the looming threat of disaster will finally summon the political will and the economic patience to endure the grim years ahead, while Italy's bondholders are kept at bay by the European central bank's outright monetary transactions programme.
(19) CIT said most of its bondholders have agreed a prepackaged reorganisation plan which will reduce total debt by $10bn (£6.1bn) while allowing the company to continue to do business.
(20) While new EU rules mean governments can no longer bail out their banks, if MPS performs weakly in the stress test, the Italian government may be allowed to invoke so-called article 32 to stop some bondholders from incurring losses, said Kinmonth.
Landlord
Definition:
(n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
(n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael James, 52, from Tower Hamlets Three days after telling his landlord that the flat upstairs was a deathtrap, Michael James was handed an eviction notice.
(2) Last week, Theresa May announced that, as part of her immigration bill , private landlords will be required, under the threat of a £3,000 fine, to ensure that "illegal immigrants" are not given access to their properties.
(3) In 2009, the Office of Fair Trading successfully sued Foxtons for extracting “unfair” charges from landlords.
(4) Some social landlords are refusing to rent properties to tenants who would be faced with the bedroom tax if they were to take up a larger home, even when tenants provide assurances they can afford the shortfall.
(5) It feels to landlords as though the state is interfering with their personal incomes – rather than regulating what is actually a two-way business with customers that deserve protection.
(6) Vulnerability: For an average social landlord with general needs housing about 40% of the rent roll is tenant payment (the remainder being paid direct by housing benefit).
(7) The GMB union said that there was a risk that vulnerable people could be made homeless, but in the event of insolvency, Southern Cross's 31,000 homes would be run by local authorities or landlords on behalf of an administrator.
(8) They raised their issues with the council in 2012 and now the landlord is trying to get them evicted.
(9) New laws may be needed to force private landlords to insulate and upgrade rented homes, the report says.
(10) Chaytor had claimed £12,925 between 2005 and 2006 for renting a flat in Regency Street, Westminster, producing a tenancy agreement purporting to show that he was paying £1,175 a month in rent to the landlord, Sarah Elizabeth Rastrick.
(11) It is a complex action, as there are a number of landlords covering private apartments and affordable shared-ownership flats.
(12) "We'll be watching them like hawks," said Jim Winkworth, a farmer and pub landlord, as he watched work starting on a bend in the Parrett between Burrowbridge and Moorland, two of the villages worst affected by the winter flooding.
(13) Landlords are now getting an average yield of 5.3%, up from 5.2% in August, LSL says.
(14) • Detainees’ families have suffered further persecution: for example, the wives of Li Heping, Wang Quanzhang, Xie Yang and Xie Yanyi have been subjected to police monitoring and harassment; the children of Li Heping and Wang Quanzhang have been denied enrolment at state schools due to police pressure; and the authorities have put pressure on the landlords of Wang Quanzhang’s and Xie Yanyi’s families to evict them from their homes.
(15) It is critical that landlords and government think deeply about the evident anxiety tenants have about receiving their rent directly,” the report warns.
(16) The landlord never cashed it and the three became friends.
(17) But landlords often put your rent up massively at the end of your lease, meaning you have to move every two years."
(18) Roger Harding, Shelter’s director of communications, policy and campaigns, said: “It beggars belief that a landlord can evict a family simply because they have three children, and the fact that this one has is yet another sign of our broken rental market.
(19) Our How to Rent guide helps tenants know their rights and responsibilities, and letting agents are now required to belong to a redress scheme so landlords and tenants have somewhere to go if they get a raw deal.” “This government has kept strong protections to guard families against the threat of homelessness.
(20) We will also require them to meet their basic responsibilities as landlords, cracking down on those who rent out dangerous, dirty and overcrowded properties.