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collateral

[kuh-lat-er-uhl] / kəˈlæt ər əl /




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Its Collateral Finance subsidiary offers commercial loans secured by precious metals.

From Barron's • Apr. 16, 2026

Two measures of funding-market liquidity, known as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate and the Tri-Party General Collateral Rate, have both crept back above 4% during the past week, though remain off their late-October peaks.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 2, 2025

Collateral estoppel protects courts from wasting time, litigants from wasting money and the rule of law from death by a thousand cuts.

From Salon • Jun. 30, 2025

“With the overreach of security services in Jordan and in the region, there’s a lot of distrust now,” said Samer Kurdi from the Collateral Repair Project, which provides aid to refugees in Amman.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 19, 2023

Collateral loans, 461, 462, 463, 493, 494, 497, 502-06, 513, 523-26; percentages of, on stocks and bonds, and on "other collateral security," 502-09; on "other collateral security" analyzed, 502ff.

From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.




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