Ironically, those now in charge of the giants of the financial system are suffering from excessive risk aversion, scared of lending even to the bluest of chips.

讽刺的是，现在掌管金融系统的巨擘们厌恶额外的风险，甚至害怕贷款给最优质的蓝筹股。

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But such downturns are more severe in countries with the Anglo-Saxon sort of financial system, because their lending is more procyclical.

不过对于那些拥有英美式金融体系的国家来说，这种下滑会更加严重，因为他们的信贷行为更加具有顺周期的性质。

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We have used the Internet and modern communications technologies to create a shadow-banking system, an unregulated lending network that was, by 2007, as large as the traditional banking system.

我们也用网络和现代交流技术创建了影子银行系统，相对于传统银行体系，一个直到2007年没有任何监管的借贷网络。

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The current economic downturn grew out of a culture of irresponsible lending and borrowing and "a failure of the entire system,"

VOA: special.2009.06.19

But the lending organization warns that strong policies to supervise and support the financial system are needed if the world economy is to fully recovery.

VOA: special.2009.04.24

Mr.Zuma said the global economic crisis highlighted the need to reform the international financial system and multilateral lending groups like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

VOA: standard.2009.06.10

Customer intimacy is missing in the lending system.

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That made her part of the underground lending system, a general term that encompasses informal lending networks, private investors, loan sharks and others.

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That engendered a housing bubble, which was nourished by the complete abdication of lending standards in the banking system.

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