Ring Fence

Word RING FENCE
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Definitions and meanings of "Ring Fence"

What do we mean by ring fence?

To guarantee the safety of funds or investment. In particular, to ensure some degree of distinction for monies, that may provide immunity against untoward financial claims.

To specify that funds may only be used for a specific purpose, especially government funds.

To require workers to remain in (particular types of work), as during wartime.

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The word "ring-fence" in example sentences

The central conclusion, which was flagged in the panel's interim report in April, is the recommendation of a so-called ring-fence around a bank's traditional lending and deposit-taking businesses. ❋ Sara Schaefer Muñoz (2011)

Any "ring-fence" that isn't a complete sham is sure to do real damage to at least some bank's business model. ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)

Gruebel is under pressure to scale down, ring-fence or even split off UBS's investment banking business from its core wealth management unit to shield private clients. ❋ The Huffington Post News Editors (2011)

Russell was defending his decision to ring-fence free university education for Scottish students and not a single combatant could lay a glove on him. ❋ Unknown (2011)

He didn't elaborate, but his remarks may be interpreted as tacit support for Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne's backing of a plan to ring-fence banks' retail operations from riskier investment banking activities. ❋ Jason Douglas (2011)

World-wide except for Latin America, which Hoover managed to ring-fence for the FBI. ❋ Andrew Roberts (2011)

Mr. Osborne also said that he endorsed the proposal for "a ring-fence around better-capitalized high street banks to make them safer, and to protect their vital services to the economy if things go wrong." ❋ Cynthia Lin (2011)

Unsurprisingly, HSBC Holdings and Lloyds Banking Group favor a wide "ring-fence" to minimize the impact on their existing U.K. operations. ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)

Instead the Tories plan to ring-fence NHS spending, thus keeping hordes of adminstrators who are otherwise otiose beavering away at nothing very much. ❋ Unknown (2009)

U.K. banks fell amid expectations that the government later Wednesday will announce plans to ring-fence retail deposits from investment-banking operations. ❋ Michele Maatouk (2011)

With subsidiaries, regulators can clearly delineate the assets and liabilities of the domestic bank and those of its parent, the better for regulators to ring-fence these assets and liabilities in times of financial crisis. ❋ T.T. Ram Mohan (2011)

But France rightly argues the crisis has exposed severe shortcomings in the euro-zone framework and that, in a highly interlinked currency union, there is no way to ring-fence the problems of one member state without marshalling the full resources of the bloc. ❋ Simon Nixon (2011)

"It is a mistake to ring-fence large areas of spending." ❋ Larry Elliott (2010)

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