(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.
Owner
Definition:
(n.) One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Example Sentences:
(1) Biden will meet with representatives from six gun groups on Thursday, including the NRA and the Independent Firearms Owners Association, which are both publicly opposed to stricter gun-control laws.
(2) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
(3) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
(4) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
(5) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(6) A failure to reach a solution would potentially leave 200,000 homes without affordable cover, leaving owners unable to sell their properties and potentially exposing them to financial hardship.
(7) Of course it is important to ensure shareholders enjoy the benefits of investing in the company, they are the owners.
(8) They also claim their electricity and water were cut off, despite frequent official complaints to police, who Lessena said served as middlemen between the owners and the tenants.
(9) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(10) I believe that the Lebedevs will be progressive and supportive owners of the Independent titles which have played such an important role in British public life for nearly 25 years.
(11) The department has redacted the IP addresses and details of network owners who downloaded the file.
(12) In autumn, leaf-heaps composted themselves on sunken patios, and were shovelled up by irritated owners of basement flats.
(13) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(14) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
(15) Thanks to the groundbreaking technology and heavy investment of a new breed of entertainment retailers offering access services, we are witnessing a revolution in the entertainment industry, benefitting consumers, creators and content owners alike.” ERA acts as a forum for the physical and digital retail sectors of music, and represents over 90% of the of the UK’s entertainment retail market.
(16) On Wednesday night the owner of the restaurant that held the fundraiser said the offending menu had not been displayed publicly.
(17) Source: Mediacells (Or view the map at OpenHeatMap ) At the other end of the scale, a number of countries will see proportionately few new buyers - suggesting that the remaining featurephone owners are declining to upgrade to more powerful phones.
(18) If you and your mother are joint tenants, when she dies you will become the sole owner of the whole property even if her will says that she is leaving her share to someone else.
(19) Start over!’” said the home’s owner, identified only as Rochelle.
(20) Jana Sante, owner of Gisella Boutique, Peckham: "We received a call from someone saying 'the riots are heading your way'.