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A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.A bailout differs from the term bail-in (coined in 2010) under which the bondholders or depositors of global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) are forced to participate in the recapitalization process but taxpayers are not.
Bailing out may refer to: Parachuting out of an aircraft in an emergency; In rebreather scuba diving, a "bail out" is a backup breathing system for when the main breathing system fails; see Rebreather#Bailout; In balance boarding, hastily jumping off the board; see Balance board#Playing the game: its tension
A bailout is an act of loaning or giving capital to an entity that is in danger of failing. When written as two words—bail out—it commonly refers to: Bail out, to secure the release of an arrested person by providing bail money; Bail out (or bale out), to exit an aircraft while in flight, using a parachute; Bailout may also refer to:
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks.
Headquarters of AIG, an insurance company rescued by the United States government during the subprime mortgage crisis "Too big to fail" (TBTF) is a theory in banking and finance that asserts that certain corporations, particularly financial institutions, are so large and so interconnected that their failure would be disastrous to the greater economic system, and therefore should be supported ...
The bailout did not include debt restructuring measures such as a haircut, to the chagrin of the Swiss, Brazilian, Indian, Russian, and Argentinian Directors of the IMF, with the Greek authorities themselves (at the time, PM George Papandreou and Finance Minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou) ruling out a haircut. [53] A second bailout package of ...
Court bail may be offered to secure the conditional release of a defendant with the promise to appear in court when required. [1] In some countries, especially the United States, bail usually implies a bail bond, a deposit of money or some form of property to the court by the suspect in return for the release from pre-trial detention.
The Economic Adjustment Programme for Ireland, usually referred to as the Bailout programme, is a memorandum of understanding on financial assistance to the Republic of Ireland in order to cope with the Post-2008 Irish financial crisis.