Politely request financial information, especially balance-sheet ratios, but agree not to share it with competitors.
Patriarchs add value in two ways that do not appear on balance-sheets, says Mr Fan.
Financial regulators everywhere must push banks to clean up their balance-sheets and bolster their capital.
Where balance-sheet growth was popular a year ago, balance-sheet tightening is now the trend.
Part of the blame goes to off-balance-sheet equipment leases that EDS has handed off to banks.
After 1991, when a balance-of-payments crisis led India to deregulate, the central bank rediscovered its spine.
Because of national balance-sheet strength and rapid economic growth, countries in Asia look attractive.
Nearly a year ago, even France admitted to having off-balance-sheet transactions and hiding debt.
Yet even as academic ecologists have abandoned balance-of-nature thinking, it still dominates practical conservation management.
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They accordingly allowed banks to gear up their balance-sheets to a greater extent than before.
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America's banks are propped up with public capital, but their balance-sheets are clogged with toxic assets.
If so, the biggest part of the banks' balance-sheets would actually shrink relative to GDP.
These on-balance-sheet financing mechanisms have nothing to do with covering up profits and losses.
Further, the market capitalization, trading liquidity and balance-sheet strength would be improved, he said.
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This egregious error is even more offensive to common sense than Enron's use of off-balance-sheet vehicles.
The government has sought to keep the balance-of-payments deficit within reasonable bounds by slowing the economy.
Likewise, India has not run into big financial trouble since a balance-of-payments crisis in 1991.
That led to a balance-of-payments crisis 21 years ago which forced India to change.
The Japanese experience showed that the next job was to deal with these broken balance-sheets.
Recoveries from debt-driven busts always take years, as households and banks repair their balance-sheets.
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To warm up, she'll do balance-based exercises including a one-arm, one-leg plank to strengthen her core.
Only 40% of its balance-sheet at the end of 2009 was funded by equity and deposits.
Europe's leading insurance companies rival it in terms of non-life premiums written and balance-sheet oomph.
Frequent use was made of off-balance-sheet vehicles, on a greater scale even than Enron.
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State Bank of India, by far the largest state outfit, has a comparatively clean balance-sheet.
This takes the loans off their balance-sheets, so the remaining, riskier assets generate higher returns.
On the other side of the balance-sheet is a tendency for people to over-complain.
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In such a situation, temporary balance-of-payments support together with generous debt relief makes sense.
The process of contracting their balance-sheets has caused them to shift assets back home.
First, regulators are pressuring them to make their balance-sheets safer, by improving their capital ratios.
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