But Shinsei Bank (Long-Term Credit Bank, before it went bust) provides some clues.
Shares in other big and deeply troubled banks such as Nippon Credit Bank, Long-Term Credit Bank and Daiwa Bank, fell as much.
In addition to some of the former assets of Hokkaido Takushoku Bank, it will have to take on the bad loans of Nippon Credit Bank and Long-Term Credit Bank, both nationalised last year.
He says he has to rely for financing on short-term bank loans at high interest rates instead of on longer-term bonds.
United States Governor of the Inter-American Development Bank for a term of five years, vice Timothy F.
In Australia, the government has shared refinancing risk on projects to allow short-term bank lending in the construction phase.
The crisis in the euro area has led to a breakdown in European interbank markets as well as the longer-term bank funding markets.
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Risk aversion also adds to interest rate costs on short term bank loans, and with Russia considered a risk investment, loan costs inevitably rise.
Presumably, countries that attract more foreign direct investment suffer less than those that have a greater amount of footloose portfolio investment or short-term bank lending.
According to the Deutsche Bank Long-Term Asset Return Study, the last time interest rates were near current levels, in the 1950s, Treasury bonds lost 40% of their inflation-adjusted value over the following three decades.
True, cheap, subsidized long-term bank funding has played an important role in the strength of the SME sector in some countries, allowing business owners to invest for the long-term and facilitate multigenerational family control of companies.
He could still be entitled to his long-term incentive plan, which is broadly based on the bank's long-term performance and is worth up to 400% of his salary, if the Barclays remuneration committee awards him one.
Back in 2000 the once-famed Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan was all but broke.
So too can their chairman, Leszek Balcerowicz, the central-bank governor, whose term runs until 2007.
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So flyers who had faced complications over the coming bank and half-term holidays may still delay their sighs of relief.
It is buying leasing assets, distressed debt and has also shown an interest in Long-Term Credit Bank.
Bank funds held in term deposits at the Fed would not be available for the federal funds market.
The fate of the Long-Term Credit Bank, Japan's 10th-largest bank, has become a symbol of what's at stake.
The central bank sets short-term interest rates, and fractional reserve banking is allowed.
He studied Japanese for a year, and took a summer internship at the Long Term Credit Bank of Japan in Tokyo.
The mighty Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan had its head office in Otemachi on an urban site that overshadowed the Masakado shrine.
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The two long-term credit banks that later went bust (Long-Term Credit Bank and Nippon Credit Bank) were stuffed full of former finance-ministry staff.
As part of the program, the central bank sells short-term Treasurys and buys longer-dated ones in an effort to keep long-term borrowing costs down.
For Hayek and the Austrians, things go wrong when a central bank sets short-term interest rates too low and allows credit to expand artificially.
They had come to fear that their dirty laundry would be revealed if the teetering Long-Term Credit Bank went broke, and that was beginning to look imminent.
The Fed chairman defended the past two rounds of quantitative easing, in which the central bank buys long-term Treasury securities in an effort to push down long-term yields.
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One mooted scheme, to use Long Term Credit Bank as the rump of the new institution, is just absurd: to entrust new lending to a bank that has already squandered so much would be indefensible.
It has an ally in the IMF which has called for the BOE to slow the Basel III implementation timetable and look for ways to reduce bank funding costs by buying private sector assets such as bank bonds and providing long-term facilities such as are offered by the European Central Bank.
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