Seemingly the safest of all securitised corporate lending is the market for commercial paper.
As Thomas Woods noted in his book Meltdown, banks in 2008 only accounted for 20% of corporate lending.
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The hope is that banks do not further retreat from corporate lending before alternative sources can fully emerge.
There is money to be made in foreign exchange, deposit-taking, and careful corporate lending (to oil exporters, for example).
Banks will be able to use ratings for all sovereign lending, and for a limited amount of corporate lending.
Although domestic credit is beginning to expand again, corporate lending for investment may not replace consumer loans for homes and cars.
Although it is solid enough, by Japanese standards, in corporate lending, like all Japanese banks MTFG faces a hard time making decent returns.
In response, investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley are trying to expand into corporate lending, private banking and retail stockbroking.
To be fair, given the starting-points left them by history, both have achieved notable successes: Chase in syndicated corporate lending and bond-underwriting, J.
It has over 30% of California's deposit accounts, leading market positions in corporate lending and investment banking, and a return on equity of 17%.
Willem Buiter, a former member of the bank's Monetary Policy Committee, reckons the logjam in money markets is already raising mortgage costs and choking off corporate lending.
Mahathir says banks must increase corporate lending 8% this year.
The company's particular problem, says Gregory Church, chairman of Church Capital Management, is GE's conglomerate nature: The megalith is into everything from corporate lending to media to jet engines.
American Express Travel Related Services Company provides a variety of products and services, including, global network services, the American Express Card, the Optima Card and other consumer and corporate lending products, stored value products, and several others.
And now, they're reacting in the opposite direction by refusing to touch anything the least bit risky, and that's threatening to freeze up financial markets generally, not just the mortgage markets, but also things like commercial paper and corporate lending.
Nearly one in 10 companies can't service the principal on their debt, according to insolvency trade body R3, suggesting that many are being kept on life support by a banking system unwilling to recognize losses and under political pressure to maintain corporate lending.
UBS's Warburg Dillion Read subsidiary has been regarded as one of the more successful bank-owned investment banks, not least because its pre-merger parent, Swiss Bank, was ruthless about organisational change and was also willing to put the subsidiary in charge of all corporate lending.
They have far too much to do at home: double the size of their business every five years or so, avoid bad debts, find more capital, cope with rapidly shifting patterns of corporate lending, bring banking to millions of poor people and deal with the politicians.
NWM's corporate-lending and bond-trading businesses, ousting NatWest's old guard at the same time.
Comerica is a bank holding company with businesses that engage in corporate and consumer lending, mortgage loans, small business and individual banking, and mutual fund and annuity products.
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Most markets cycle through similar sequences, but the timing is asymmetrical between consumer and commercial, real estate lending and corporate bonds.
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Wattrett points out that even if banks in Germany, Austria and Italy stay solvent, lending to the corporate sector across Europe is down 6% year-on-year and there is every indication that it will be reduced still further.
The whole system was more one of corporate discipline than real borrowing and lending.
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The 1970s brought insurance, corporate finance and securities margin-lending within its remit.
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