But it also means all players have more capital at risk.

For example, investments in company stock shares put capital at risk.

They have also found ways to enter these markets with only modest capital at risk.

This time, they say, builders will have to put a substantial amount of their own capital at risk.

Finding sponsors willing to put their own capital at risk proved to be difficult.

Underwriting does, however, put a firm's capital at risk, although usually for only a short time, such as overnight.

A quarter of the world's population affected, perhaps fifty trillion dollars in human and natural capital at risk.

The business does not put as much capital at risk on a project that may be inefficient or unfeasible.

The proposal puts a tremendous amount of Shearson capital at risk.

They said the new leaders in most debt operations had acted fast to reshape the units and reduce the capital at risk.

The Government typically owns the bricks and mortar and puts its capital at risk.

Indeed, it directly aligns our interests with the sophisticated investors who join us in putting their capital at risk."

In other words, with so much capital at risk, if New York City flounders, they believe somebody will do something before it's too late.

As an underwriter, Schwab will presumably put its own capital at risk and take a direct role in helping corporations raise money.

Power should reflect capital at risk.

"All the partners of Goldman do have part of their capital at risk," Mr. Long said.

"Before the advent of mutual funds and everybody having a brokerage account, the capital at risk in the market was largely the market makers'," she said.

However, he offended the sibling of an influential eunuch during a farewell banquet before his return, which put his position in the capital at risk.

Market-makers will become more like the specialists on the Big Board, matching buyers and sellers directly and putting their own capital at risk less frequently.

'Capital at risk,' Iris insisted.

"We already have a lot of private equity capital at risk and they lose all their money before the government loses a penny," Mr. Edelman said.

The person (or institution) putting capital at risk is the investor, not the fund manager, which in this case is Bain Capital.

With Chad's history of civil war, ethnic strife and corruption, its oil lay untapped for decades because no one was willing to put capital at risk here.

And they require very little capital, a precious asset in an era when firms increasingly have to put their own capital at risk to reap a profit.

Does it make sense for companies to be able to keep significant financial transactions off their books when unrelated parties provide only 3 percent of the related capital at risk?