Restored Soviet access to U.S. Export-Import Bank credits and loan-guarantees through the waiver of the Jackson-Vanik Amendment should be indefinitely postponed.
Japanese co-financing with the World Bank, and large commercial bank credits and sovereign bond offerings will comprise the bulk of this year's remaining amount.
The Center further urges the withdrawal of U.S. and alliance bank participation in any private syndicated loans to China, bond offerings, inter-bank deposit relationships, or bank-to-bank credits.
Habibie administration, former cooperatives and small business minister Adi Sasono launched 17 separate credit schemes for the benefit of cooperatives, small businesses and farmers, funded largely by central bank credits.
Concerning the prospect of restored Soviet access to U.S. Export-Import Bank credits -- this issue should be evaluated separately from the conditions under which the United States might grant MFN status.
Thanks also for overturning the Jackson-Vanik and Stevenson amendments providing MFN and U.S. Export-Import Bank credits and the International Energy Agency Agreement of May 1983 limiting Soviet natural gas deliveries to Western Europe.
It is a fact that, for example, billions of dollars of Western government and commercial bank credits were diverted annually by the Kremlin to fund activities both at home and abroad that were inimical to U.S. security interests.
For example between 1985 and 1988, about 80 percent of all Western commercial bank credits to the former Soviet Union took the form of untied, balance-of-payments loans with no effort made to identify where the money was going or how it would be used.
In other words, it is not enough that the United States is already largely committed to putting American taxpayers at risk in the context of restored access to Export-Import Bank credits in the event that a Soviet emigration bill is passed, pressures on the Baltic nations are eased, and a U.S.-Soviet trade agreement is approved by the Congress.
As important as Export-Import Bank credits, government investment guarantees and other U.S. subsidies potentially provided for by this accord might be, by conveying to Tokyo, Bonn and other Western capitals a sort of U.S. "Good Housekeeping" seal of approval, Washington also encourages others who may have still "deeper pockets" to move aggressively to assist the Soviet economy with taxpayer funds.
They include the Isle of Wight's innovative Care4Care scheme where neighbours bank care credits for the time they spend helping elderly neighbours.
To facilitate large-value transactions and to assist in returns and merchant chargebacks, Balanced intends to add an option for bank ACH credits and debits as a payment choice in the near future.
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Yet it is hard to blame the central bank's governor for the misuse of credits that were dished out in the heat of a bank run.
The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors' EV1 electric car and Toyota's electric RAV4.
The big carmakers likely have plenty of credits in the bank, having sold everything from neighborhood electric vehicles to General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people )' EV1 electric car and Toyota (nyse: TM - news - people )'s electric RAV4.
Projects in the area include a Care Bank, where people can earn credits for their future care by helping others.
Some businesses borrowed the credits and deposited them in the bank.
These statements can be interpreted as saying: thanks in advance for providing us with observer and eventual membership status in the GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank as well as expanded access to Western credits (particularly the taxpayer guaranteed variety).
IMF, which in turn will bring more credits, like those already promised by the World Bank and Japan.
The report credits Mr Zoellick with proposing in 2010 that the bank and government should work on a joint project on challenges to China's longer-term development.
Also, Facebook is its own reserve bank, meaning it has complete control over the value of its credits.
UBS, an investment bank, but they can sell it for three times that amount once credits from Europe's carbon-trading scheme are included.
Within weeks, Iraq's central bank and a group of private banks are expected to begin providing trade credits to help get the economy moving again.
In this fall's bank bailout bill, a provision was added to renew many of these tax credits for eight years--but tax credits for wind-produced energy were extended only through 2009.
Under the terms of this side letter, however, the United States agrees not to collect on the Lend-Lease debt until the U.S. government makes available to the Soviet Union export credits, guarantees and insurance through the U.S. Export-Import Bank and other government credit facilities!
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Bank balance sheets have swollen further as a consequence of the sharp reduction in investor willingness to buy securitized credits, which has forced banks to retain a substantially higher share of previously committed and new loans in their own portfolios.
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