noun
definition
The state of having enough funds or liquid assets to pay all of one's debts; the state of being solvent.
Examples of solvency in a Sentence
At first he attempted to develop the latter, and to carry on the government by means of loans in such a way as to maintain public confidence in its solvency.
The same day Equitable's appointed actuary wrote to the prudential division setting out the company's solvency position.
And while it does this, a governing body must ensure the solvency of the college and safeguard its assets.
The level of benefits in the LGPS is such that substantial employer contributions are required to maintain fund solvency.
We do not guarantee the solvency of any insurer we place business with.
They said that Equitable were very close to not covering their required minimum margin for regulatory solvency.
This was different to statutory solvency, in that there was a statutory requirement for a company to meet the detailed regulatory solvency requirements.
Periodic settlements are obviously periodic tests of the solvency of dealers.
It excludes the required minimum margin of solvency but, in the UK, it includes the resilience reserve.
In November 2000 Equitable had been close to not meeting their solvency margin, partly due to a drop in equity values.
They revealed the stricken life assurer may not be able to meet its minimum solvency requirement or to repay its £ 346m in bonds.
The inherited estate provides most of this solvency capital.
Scheme solvency The valuation must also include the actuary 's estimate of the scheme 's solvency.
The company 's solvency, its ability to meet its liabilities, is put under pressure.
This may change the outlook for the scheme 's solvency in the longer term.
It shifted the criteria for a bank 's solvency from its cash to its capital.
Indeed the more the solvency of institutions is uncertain, the more the regulation of liquidity becomes important.
An actuary can advise on the solvency of a life assurance company and a pension fund.
As the foreclosure rates on subprime mortgages continued to rise, the solvency of lenders specializing in subprime mortgages began to decline.
It was not until his report on the financial results of 1888 that Sir Evelyn Baring (afterwards Lord Cromer) was able to inform the British government that the situation was such that it would take a series of untoward events seriously to endanger the stability of Egyptian finance and the solvency of the Egyptian government.
Whilst it can never (in the absence of any great mineral wealth) develop into a wealthy country, it can at least support its own population; and it would, but for the short-sighted trade policy of Abdur Rahman, certainly have risen to a position of respectable solvency.
Their strengths are experience, reputation, and financial solvency.
In neither case does the FSA regard the consumer as being given a promise about the continued solvency of the firm providing the product.
The company's solvency, its ability to meet its liabilities, is put under pressure.
This may change the outlook for the scheme's solvency in the longer term.
It shifted the criteria for a bank's solvency from its cash to its capital.
In the next section we will consider the longer term solvency ratios.
However, despite the welcome investment returns achieved over the past couple of years, the solvency position of many schemes has not improved.
The study reported that such a high risk pool was a "viable option," but would demand additional funding of some form, beyond premiums, in order to ensure the program's solvency.
After this, Fredegond endeavoured to restore imperial finance to a state of solvency, and to set up a more regular form of government in her Neustria, which was less romanized and less wealthy than Burgundy, where Guntram was reigning, and less turbulent than theeastern kingdom, where most of the great warlike chiefs with their large landed estates were somewhat impatient of royal authority.