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• n  the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due

• Ponzi Schemes--in which a swindler touts outsize returns, parries questions about legitimacy with hefty dividends and creates the illusion of solvency by paying off early investors .
• Now, worst of all, the boy's sanctityperhaps even his solvencyare being threatened by a family squabble: in India, the high-living guru's mother Mataji, who claims to be the .
• That in turn is causing solvency problems for some financial institutions that rely on short-term borrowing to fund their operations.

• insolvency

News & Articles

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• Mario Draghi Goes on a German Charm Offensive
  The ECB will not resort to "higher inflation rates" to resolve the euro zone debt crisis and will only "intervene" in the bond markets to ensure the solvency of a country, the central bank president told a German broadcaster Monday.
  June 11, 2013 - CNBC
• ECB will not buy bonds to save profligate states: Draghi
  FRANKFURT (Reuters) - European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Monday the organization would not use its yet-to-be-activated bond-buying program to save profligate countries from insolvency, but only to preserve the euro. The central bank's program has helped calm markets over the past couple of months, but it has raised particular concern in Germany, which is most exposed to ...
  June 10, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Sunday Herald
  Strauss-Kahn said that the global financial system had been pushed to brink of meltdown because of "intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest US-based banks and European financial institutions".
• John Paul Stevens in MarketWatch
  For defined-contribution plans, however, fiduciary misconduct need not threaten the entire plan's solvency to reduce benefits below the amount that participants would otherwise receive,Stevens wrote.
• Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in Economic Times
  There is nothing better than transparency to demonstrate solvency to give confidence and to leave behind us all these unfounded rumours,Zapatero said after highlighting a decision by all 27 EU leaders to follow the Bank of Spain's lead by...