But Professor Strauss says a banking crisis is especially hard to recover from, because there is less money to lend to support growth.

VOA: special.2009.11.06

Newspaper reports about a banking crisis in Russia used that expression.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The run on the British bank Northern Rock in September 2007 marked the beginning of the world banking crisis in Britain.

VOA: standard.2010.02.18

new regulations, to help avoid the kind of risky behavior by financial institutions that brought on the U.S.banking crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.06.05

Although he says the worst is over, Bailey says the banking crisis is not.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Ratings agencies, which Mr.Fillon said helped fuel the crisis, must adopt rules for dealing with conflicts of interest and offshore banking centers, which often allow clients to evade paying taxes in their home countries, need to be vigorously regulated.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

"The current financial crisis has clearly demonstrated that risk to the financial system can arise not only in the banking sector, but also from the activities of other financial firms, such as investment banks and insurance companies that traditionally have not been subject to the type of regulation and consolidated supervision applicable to bank holding companies,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.01