Banks, even though pressured to extend credit to unviable projects, are still reluctant to lend.
He became president in 1987, and in 1991 turned Elektra into the first Mexican retailer to extend credit to the poor.
Rather than extend credit to the phone companies, manufacturers say that they would prefer to sell any loans off to Wall Street.
After all, many of them essentially extend credit to their customers.
Obama sidestepped a question Wednesday about whether he supports that initiative, saying that it's a "positive sign" that the government is trying to extend credit to consumers.
Banks argued that stricter capital rules will put a damper on their ability to extend credit to businesses and consumers while the economy is still struggling to recover.
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But it has been fueled by exports that have been driven by the single-currency and a kind of vendor financing that saw German banks extend credit to so-called peripheral European nations, which bought German goods.
If you do need credit, there will be a premium on having a good credit score since lenders will be more hesitant to extend credit to those who are seen as more of a risk.
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Because banks tend to be reluctant to extend credit to risky small businesses, the SBA operates a program that makes such loans more enticing to lenders by guaranteeing a portion of each loan against default.
And particularly looking at what we've seen with red lining for insurance in African-American communities and the reluctance of some banks perhaps to extend credit to African-Americans, I think that's something that we'd all agree that we should combat.
With effect from April 21st, banks must continue to extend credit even to companies that have defaulted on debt repayments.
Owners of banks, for example, are no longer allowed to extend cheap credit to their other businesses one way the tycoons built their empires.
The idea that the Bush Administration would agree to extend additional credit to the Soviet Union is made still more preposterous by the USSR's present economic circumstances.
And if those rising corporate mortality rates were real, it would also show that banks were feeling increasingly confident that they have sufficient capital to absorb the consequential losses - which would also be a very positive sign, in that banks would also have sufficient capital to extend necessary credit to viable businesses.
Some states also extend the credit to homes listed on state and local historic property registries.
It induced lenders to extend credit overeagerly, overgenerously to "subprime" borrowers.
Ulf Riese, the bank's chief financial officer, says 30% of credit losses can be traced to the initial decision to extend credit but 70% come from changes in borrowers' circumstances and the way banks respond to them.
On May 14, the House introduced its version of legislation to extend the tax credit and voted to approve it a week later.
My concerns have turned less on the solvency of these institutions and more on their ability to extend the credit that our economy needs to keep growing.
So far, the damage in the U.S. mortgage industry has been confined to a few highly leveraged and weakened lenders, such as New Century Financial , which had to file for bankruptcy earlier this year after its banks refused to extend it more credit, and to a few funds that had big investments in the sector.
So far, the damage in the U.S. mortgage industry has been confined to a few highly leveraged and weakened lenders, such as New Century Financial (other-otc: NEWC - news - people ), which had to file for bankruptcy earlier this year after its banks refused to extend it more credit, and to a few funds that had big investments in the sector.
The problem is that many banks remain unwilling to extend credit given the need, among other things, to shore up their capital.
Today, concerns about capital, asset quality, and credit risk continue to limit the willingness of many intermediaries to extend credit, even when liquidity is ample.
Assessing the legality of the Bush Administration's decision to extend billions in taxpayer-underwritten credit guarantees to an obviously uncreditworthy sovereign borrower -- like Moscow center -- when the Farm Act of 1990 explicitly prohibits such transactions.
That is, each involves the Fed's authorities to extend credit or purchase securities.
That risk has grown following this week's financial strains, which will make banks less able and less willing to extend credit.
In a boom, rising property prices increase the value of the collateral held by banks, which makes them more willing to extend credit.
Banks are being pressured by the government to roll over existing loans and make new ones, and firms encouraged to extend credit and maintain business relations.
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