Iceland's banks collapsed in 2008 after years of growth that depended on foreign loans.
Oil exports and foreign loans have spurred economic growth and have fuelled a reconstruction boom.
Many short-term foreign loans have been rolled over, relieving the potential strain on those reserves.
These companies would now be paying up to 20% more in baht to service their foreign loans.
They would also help keep debtor nations in better shape to implement difficult reforms and repay foreign loans.
They do not have much other leverage: thanks to the oil boom, Russia is no longer dependent on foreign loans to stay afloat.
This contributed to banks' and industrial companies' over-reliance on short-term foreign loans, which could no longer be serviced after the currency collapsed last October.
Restructuring foreign debt offers another way to stabilise exchange rates, because demand for dollars to repay short-term foreign loans is a big reason for the relentless downward pressure on the currencies.
Foreign loans are a mere 5% of its portfolio.
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Renong, with interests ranging from construction and property to financial services, is billions of dollars in debt and admits it is unable to service both local and foreign loans with some 50 banks.
Total bank credit, including foreign bonds and loans in foreign currencies, fell to 6.3% in the first from 8.4% in the same period last year, according to the World Bank.
As in Thailand, under-capitalised small banks were over-extended, especially in property, and were hurt by the mounting cost of repaying foreign-currency loans.
The biggest issue could be foreign banks' loans to major Greek businesses.
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This month China freed interest rates on large foreign-currency loans, and the government recently announced that it would liberalise local-currency credit within three years.
After Mr Nyerere's resignation in 1985, his successor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, attempted to raise productivity and attract foreign investment and loans by dismantling government control of the economy.
This portfolio can be used to embrace all manner of investments such as Bonds, Commodities, Equity, Foreign Exchange, Loans and Options plus less transparent assets such as Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Film Box Office Sales Human Resources, Real Estate, Structured Products, Trade Marks, Patent and Marketing Rights.
The alternative, a foreign-owned holding company, must operate under tight restrictions that forbid, for example, inter-company loans, foreign-exchange balancing, import-export, or even consolidated accounts across the subsidiaries.
This rule also permits a group to centralize its foreign finance function in a foreign subsidiary, which can receive interest on loans made to related foreign affiliates without U.S. taxation.
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The dollar is now trading at BRL1.64, just days after the government raised the financial transaction taxes on foreign banks taking out loans overseas and bringing in dollars to the country.
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Executive Branch slush-fund for medium-term loans to foreign governments.
Their cheap loans helped foreign creditors and countries alike.
The biggest decline on its balance sheet was in loans to foreign central banks, which could imply that those banks don't face as much demand for dollars from panicky commercial banks in their own nations.
Frills include hand-delivered cash and foreign currency, and tailored loans.
Depending upon the amount of registered capital invested, the foreign shareholder may make shareholder loans to the WFOE, with payments of interest and repayment of principal not subject to profitability.
U.S. lenders report loan and credit-card activity to credit bureaus based on billing addresses, but that activity could stop if you change your credit-card accounts and loans to a foreign address.
Nyenrode (see profile), a Dutch school, has announced that it is postponing the start of this year's full-time MBA because it can no longer secure bank loans for its foreign students, blaming the recession.
They had access to subsidized foreign currency and low-interest loans from state-owned banks.
The apocalyptic tax consequence of being a passive investor in small business loans stops virtually all foreign investors from participating directly in the U.S. small business loan market while driving their investment dollars into the corporate bond market.
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In fact, it was a similarly desperate need for funds that initially drove North Korea to borrow a total of 680 million Deutsche marks and 455 million Swiss francs in syndicated loans from nearly 100 foreign banks in the late 1970s.
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