Euro-area leaders agreed that the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), their new permanent rescue fund, would be able to inject funds directly into banks rather than via loans to the government.
"Whoever ... builds infrastructure, provides cheap products for markets and loans to support government initiatives will always have an influence over Africa affairs, " said Ayo Johnson, director of Viewpoint Africa, an organization that sells content about Africa to media outlets internationally.
And for the first time that I can remember, the cost of insuring loans to the UK government is a tiny bit less than the cost of insuring loans to Germany.
The bank had agreed to repurchase bum loans it sold to the government-sponsored agencies, which are now demanding more for the loan repurchases than Bank of America had projected.
The president of Birkbeck, University of London, says higher fees and a failure to communicate new rights to government loans for part-time students has led to a 40% drop in England.
Barclays for example has quite large retail loans in Spain, but relative small loans to the Spanish government.
The implied interest rate on 10-year loans to the Italian government fell more than half a percentage point - a remarkable drop - to less than 6%.
But it is loans made to Local Government Financing Vehicles (LGFVs), special companies set up to fund ambitious and often redundant infrastructure projects, that have attracted the greatest attention.
Even after allowing for bad loans to local-government investment companies, it runs at 80% of GDP, the bank estimates, about the same as Britain's last year and well below Greece's.
So this means that the perceived quality of private-sector loans to the Spanish government would deteriorate - which, in theory, would have the perverse effect of making it harder and more expensive for Spain to borrow from conventional sources.
The news for Europe's banks doesn't get a lot better, with this morning's downgrade of the credit ratings of Portugal's banks by Moody's - on concerns about the quality of their big loans to the Portuguese government (inter alia).
Third, if the bailout loan ranks ahead of existing private-sector loans to the Spanish government, there is a risk that Spain will end up paying more to borrow from conventional commercial sources - which is precisely the opposite of what it wanted.
Third, (actually this is the second-and-a-half reason, because I am unclear about how the Spanish government will address it), the independent assessors may conclude that the banks should make greater provisions for possible losses on their loans to the Spanish government - because the price of Spanish government bonds has deteriorated since the IMF determined the haircut or discount that should apply to these bonds.
Not only might this lead to a reduction in the way of home loans, but thanks to government support of the banking industry such that they grew large enough to be systemically material, the government had to protect what its policies created.
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As part of the deal, Flagstar admitted that it had submitted false certifications to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, inducing the Federal Housing Administration to accept loans for government insurance that were not eligible and that resulted in losses to HUD when the loans defaulted.
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Founded in 1973 as a government-sponsored enterprise, Sallie Mae originally borrowed money at near-government rates to purchase loans guaranteed by the government, but in the 1990s Congress took away SLM's funding edge.
Or to put it another way, the Spanish government would have struggled to finance itself without loans from the banks and the banks would be bust if the government were to go bust.
In contrast to government grants, loans can be used to set up revolving funds.
Some critics note that Mr Magalhaes's sudden concern for the poor dates back to a row last month over the tax breaks and government loans offered to Ford to build a car factory in his home state, Bahia.
Those that opt to stay at home can apply for government micro-loans to start a business.
Branson is pushing for government loans to budding businesses, as a booster for the flagging economy.
Larger companies have easier access to bank loans, government support, larger customers, as well as better talent.
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It suspended loans to Chad after the government reneged on an agreement designed to minimise the filching of oil revenues.
He still favours an unpopular cap-and-trade scheme for emissions (like Mr Obama), but this month courted carmakers by supporting low-interest government loans to them.
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Buyers are also having an easier time taking out government loans to purchase existing homes, where they can typically get more bang for their buck.
More than half of student borrowers fail to max out government loans before taking out riskier private loans, according to research by the nonprofit Project on Student Debt.
Add to trillions promised by the government in loans and potential spending to soothe the financial crisis.
At the same time, we were able to increase the government guarantee on SBA loans, to encourage more banks and credit unions to go ahead and make SBA loans to good, creditworthy small businesses.
These deposits were then used to inflate a domestic property bubble, to fund Greek corporate loans and to buy large quantities of Greek government bonds.
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