BNP's woes highlight the spreading fallout from U.S. homebuyers' rising inability to pay back loans.
Indeed, arguably the opposite is happening as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two nationalised mortgage agencies, seek to compel banks to buy back loans of doubtful quality they had sold to the agencies.
If applied by the UK Government - and it may have to apply them quickly, as the Project Verde sale is well under way - that would require Lloyds to make its Project Verde assets much less onerous in capital assets required to back loans.
First Solar shares, which took a big hit last week on news that the Department of Energy was holding back loans it has expected to received to complete a large solar facility in Antelope Valley, California that the company is building for Exelon, continues to lose ground Monday morning.
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The latest figures show home loans are bouncing back and loans for new cars are on the rise, but the number of new credit cards is still significantly down.
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Many of the laid-off workers had taken out loans for their children's college tuition, but they found it impossible to pay back the loans immediately.
The Consumer Finance Association said most people pay back their loans on time and without penalties.
Beyond information-gathering, Lenddo also uses people's networks to essentially pressure them to pay back their loans.
Nonetheless, the borrowers willingly comply, and to everyone's surprise, nearly all of them pay back the loans.
Freddie Mac (nyse: FRE - news - people ), with promises to back the loans.
It cut back on loans and started a program last spring that offers small-increment bonds to retail investors.
If prices fall low enough, farmers don't have to pay back the loans.
In stepped Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with promises to back the loans.
Commercial banks have become used to buying back their loans at deep discounts.
In West Java, farmers' credit recipients were told that if Golkar won, they wouldn't have to pay back the loans.
If I can't find a job before then, we may have to sell up and downsize to pay back the loans.
Republicans seem to think that those cant afford to pay back the loans are in this situation because of their own faults.
Yes, our kids will have to pay back the loans, with interest.
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You can always decide to help them pay back their loans if you turn out to have more money than you need.
But local governments still have the ability to pay back the loans.
At the second half of 2010, the state-owned banking system cut back on loans to developers, and tightened loans to buy second homes.
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Those challenges include paying employees, paying back bank loans, meeting deadlines, and making sure that all the legal and accounting issues are taken care of.
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They have to hold a minimum total capital of 8% of risk-weighted assets - that is, capital held to back the loans that they make.
Dwek, a real estate developer with nearly 400 properties, was trying to pay back some loans, but the feds later charged him with bank fraud.
Despite signs that global steel prices may be picking up, many steelmakers will find it hard to pay back the loans they took out to finance their expansion.
To make college more affordable, we'll make it easier for students to pay back their loans, and forgive their debt earlier if they choose a career in public service.
Deborah Schuler, vice president of the Banking Group of Moody's Asia Pacific, says banks all across Asia were guilty of plowing money back into loans rather than saving their capital for a rainy day.
The Eurogroup meeting was also expected to assess the rescues of Portugal and the Republic of Ireland, with the possibility that both countries will be given slightly longer to pay back the loans it has already received.
Adding to the complexity is the need for both Fannie and Freddie to insure their portfolios against interest-rate risk in particular, the danger that borrowers may pay back their loans early, if interest rates fall, leaving the companies with money to reinvest at a lower rate.
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