Sure, the leaders agreed to lend up to 200bn euros to the IMF to be diverted back to struggling eurozone countries.
Mahathir has personally launched a campaign to boost house-buying by allowing banks to lend up to 95% of purchase prices, compared with the previous 80% limit.
The Bank of Greece has permission from the ECB to lend against poor collateral up to a certain amount, set twice a week.
There was also some interest-rate liberalization as Chinese banks are now allowed to lend at a discount of up to 20% below the benchmark, compared with a previous floor of 10%.
The Chinese bank plans to do more securitization deals in the U.S., as selling off the loans as securities will enable the bank to free up capital to lend more in the U.S. Its goal this year is to originate loans intended for an additional two to three such deals, a person with knowledge of the bank said.
After all, the IMF might formally lend the extra money to Indonesia, but then use the spare resources, freed up by that fresh financing, to lend more to Europe.
This means that banks' ability to lend goes up and down with the stockmarket.
Well, the NEK has whipped up something to lend a hand that's a bit larger than another recent scanner.
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New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, for example, has tried to prop up the firms by asking big banks to lend them capital.
And the key is to match them up with banks that are in a position to lend.
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Because no bank will lend you the money to dig it up without a bankable feasibility study.
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My point in bringing this up is that it does lend credence to the idea that the FOMC may slow or stop growing the balance sheet sooner rather than later.
Could it eventually mean that banks would be poorer and have little alternative but to up sticks and move abroad, with those who remain unable to lend to companies anyway?
They can earn 1-2% in fees, and up to 300 basis points above Libor, the rate at which banks lend to each other, in interest.
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One in five euros that Greek banks now lend to households or companies is propped up by the ECB.
Endless borrowing is not a possibility, since creditors will eventually wake up to basic economics and increase the cost at which they are willing to lend.
This was one of the core beliefs that led us to organize the forum in the first place: that there was a unique type of innovation that was springing up across South Asia that would lend itself to further scale and adaption around the region.
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LTCM, banks have become less willing to lend to hedge funds, which provide them with only minimal information about what they are up to.
You know, that might lend a clue to whether the borrower can keep up the new lower payments.
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If the rental market opens up, these banks will have to lend to developers, which will expose them to the risk of falling prices.
This data can give criminals knowledge about the names of employees at a company, insight in its managerial make-up or information about its processes to lend credibility to other attacks.
And we guaranteed some of these loans by up to 90 percent, which has given local banks and credit unions the confidence they need to lend.
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The overnight London interbank offered rate jumped to 3.94% from 2.37%, while three-month Libor inched up to 4.32% from 4.29%, illustrating the unwillingness of banks to lend among themselves.
The overnight London interbank offered rate jumped again to 3.94% from 2.37%, while three-month Libor inched up to 4.32% from 4.29%, illustrating the unwillingness of banks to lend among themselves.
This can be done in two ways: by speeding up payment or by getting companies to in effect lend to their suppliers.
If, even despite the cheaper funding, the financial institutions still cut the total amount they lend, the Bank of England will charge them more, up to a maximum of 1.5%.
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As demand recovers, healthy firms will start to run out of working capital, just as their need for it picks up and the banks may not be ready to lend.
If European banks hold so many dollars in America, why is a shortage of dollars in Europe driving up LIBOR, the rate at which banks are willing to lend to one another, and prompting deleveraging and asset sales?
We are still feeling the effects of the subprime mortgage crisis, as banks tighten up on lending (they don't even want to lend to each other, which tells you something), which in turn has sharply slowed the U.S. economy.
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