This generated some fat fees but increased the size of the Banks' balance-sheets.

投行由此获得了高额的酬金，但是却增加了银行资产负债的规模。

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Banks are still under pressure to bring down the size of their balance-sheets.

为了减小资产负债表的规模，银行仍然满负压力。

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Thanks to “quantitative easing” and other unorthodox measures to pump in liquidity, central banks’ balance-sheets are swollen—to well over twice their pre-crisis size in Britain and America.

由于采取了“量化宽松”及其他超常措施注入流动性，英美两国央行的资产负债表规模剧增——超过危机前一倍有余。

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What makes matters worse is that these same assets are still being hyped in potential and size to leverage balance sheets.

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In the past, the premiums they paid into a central emergency-fund for bailing out troubled banks were crudely linked to the size of their balance sheets.

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Even so companies may well have to draw on uncommitted credit facilities with banks, expanding the size of bank balance-sheets.

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