Similar reckless lending practices prevailed in the leveraged buyout market, where private equity firms take over public companies and finance the deals with high debt ratios; the leveraged loan market, where banks provide financing to private equity firms; and the asset-backed commercial paper market, where banks use off-balance sheet schemes to borrow very short term.
在杠杆收购市场也同样充斥着鲁莽的借贷行为，在这些市场上私人直接投资公司以高负债率进行融资后用来收购上市公司；杠杆贷款市场是银行用来向私人直接投资公司提供融资的市场；而资产支持商业票据市场是银行使用资产负债表外计划来进行非常短期的借款的市场。