The retail banking division also saw an increase in the amount of loans advanced.
With repayments also up, the amount of loans outstanding actually contracted by half a percent in February.
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The increasing amount of loans that European banks are repaying to the ECB was a sign of that confidence, he said.
The amount of loans treated this way is unclear because nobody centrally collates the data, and Fitch says its three trillion yuan estimate for off-balance-sheet credit is rough.
"It doesn't specifically require them to make a certain amount of loans or deploy the capital in a particular, proscribed way, " said John Dugan, comptroller of the currency.
Aid is given typically in grants and only through a limited amount of loans, and the family is implicitly expected by the college to chip in what it can for its child.
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The city received the largest number and total amount of loans approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration for any one ZIP Code in New York or New Jersey, according to agency data viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The most recent reports put the amount of these loans at 7.7 trillion yuan, or about 17% of overall lending.
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From the early 1990s, the dollar amount of CRA loans began a steep decade-long climb.
Well the European Central Bank has just pumped an astonishing amount of new loans into the banking system.
Making them take a hit is expected to net several billion euros, reducing the amount of rescue loans the country needs.
Sandy is on pace to attract the third-highest amount of disaster loans in U.S. history, behind only Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
Specifically, the SEC alleges that Fannie Mae, formally known as the Federal National Mortgage Association, underreported the amount of subprime loans made to borrowers with weak credit histories.
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The government also filed non-prosecution agreements with Fannie and Freddie themselves, in which the companies agreed not to contest the core allegations that they misstated the amount of subprime loans they held.
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These policies will limit future domestic consumption growth in the same way that they have in the past, and the greater the amount of nonperforming loans generated the tighter the constraints on consumption growth.
And in this instance, the culprit (if that is the right word) is the permission that was given under so-called Basel ll to the biggest banks to use their own internal risk models to determine the riskiness of categories of loans and - by implication - the amount of capital they need to hold as a protection against the souring of those loans.
That means that lenders get considerable amount of subsidies to provide loans to students, who can be big credit risks.
Multitrans is not locked into paying a set amount representing interest on its loans regardless of its business results -- the amount it pays depends on its revenues.
That's 46 times the amount of all the World Bank loans made over the past three decades.
Together they need two-thirds of this amount to write off these loans and put their capital ratios on a sound footing.
Chinese banks' loans amount to only 65% of their deposits, compared with far higher ratios in America and western Europe.
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On some estimates, these already amount to 40-50% of all bank loans.
Bank loans in Brazil amount to 35% of gross domestic product, compared with 60% in most other emerging markets, says Pangaro.
He says, for example, that the volume of subprime loans was too small to have caused Armageddon, but he skates over the huge amount of leverage that built up.
He notes that bank loans make up 80% of the amount in China.
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Anecdotal reports abound that regulators are requiring banks to put aside reserves for as much as 200% of non-performing loans, an egregious amount unless the underlying accounts are suspect.
Included in this data package should be the names of U.S. corporate beneficiaries, the American banks involved in extending the actual loans to Moscow and the timing and amount of each and every U.S. government-guaranteed trade transaction.
Small loans from individual lenders accumulate until the full amount of the loan request is reached.
The details of the loans were as interesting as their total amount.
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