A thin silver lining is its relatively small exposure to noxious commercial property, at 2% of its total loans, one-fifth the proportion at Bank of America.

尚存的一线希望在于该行在商业地产这一“有毒资产”上的敞口相对较小，仅占总贷款的2%，是美国银行该比例的五分之一。

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But this time the financial system is compromised: one Scottish bank is already down; Edinburgh fund managers will suffer; and Scottish firms too need bank loans.

但这一次金融系统妥协了：一家苏格兰银行已经倒下；爱丁堡的基金经理们将迎来寒冬期；苏格兰的各家公司也亟需银行的贷款。

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The competitors jostled with one another for bank loans.

竞争对手为取得银行贷款相互竞争。

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U.S. money-market funds that provide short-term credit to European banks will suffer major losses (about one third of their bank loans are in Europe.) And the operations of big U.S. companies that hold European bonds, or rely on short-term credit, will screech to a halt.

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It castigated the investment bank after one of its analysts speculated that the problem loans of Hana Bank, which is based in Seoul, may be rising.

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One explanation is that, as bank loans begin to trade in the secondary markets like ordinary bonds, the banks themselves are less interested in preventing borrowers from imploding than when they kept the debt on their books.

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