Many banks,he says, are going to need additional capital to deal with bad loans and heavy debt.

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Banks took big losses as they traded mortgage-related securities that went bad.

VOA: special.2010.01.22

U.S.officials pressed for rules requiring banks to keep larger reserves to cope with bad loans.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

Strauss-Kahn said the pace of global recovery depends significantly on the effectiveness of measures to dispose of bad loans currently on the books of major banks.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Geithner said government and private investors will work together to purchase bad loans from banks, so-called "toxic assets", so the banks can resume lending and get the economy going again.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20