Bailout

1.

Any situation where the losses of a failing business are absorbed by persons or organisations outside the business.

2.

The use of public money to deal with a failed or failing business, for example a bank.

Sometimes written bail-out or bail out.

See also

• Bailin
• Capital
• Capital adequacy
• Eligible liabilities
• Loss absorbing capacity
• MREL
• Multiple Point of Entry
• Project Birch
• Recapitalisation amount
• Recapitalise
• Resolution Authority
• Single Point of Entry
• SLAC
• TARP