Last month the country was shocked by the death of Tadayo Honma, a former central bank governor who'd become the CEO of Aozora Bank, successor to the shuttered Nippon Credit Bank.
But if it was a big bank, and if it was nationalised by a government such as Spain or Italy already perceived by many to have unsustainably large debts, then there could be serious contagion from the credit-worthiness of the bank to the credit-worthiness of the state: there would be an escalation of concern that the relevant government would be unable to repay everything it owes.
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Ten years later he was the first to receive permission from Brazil's central bank to introduce consumer credit, using a small finance company he bought that year.
Capital One was the first bank to issue credit cards without foreign transaction fees.
The government rescued RBS only because the public needs the bank to supply credit and to provide a payments system.
Control over national banks offers many advantages to politicians and access to bank credit for the government is just one of them.
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Even with these rules, access to bank credit is very limited.
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And it is widely predicted that the central bank will soon announce measures to curb credit growth by increasing the ratio of bank deposits that must be kept with it in reserve.
But keeping these debts on their books, and so continuing to favour existing long-term but often poor-risk customers, is choking off bank credit to those firms which could actually make good use of it.
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.
While bankers said that the CRR hike is unlikely to impact banks' prime-lending rate, the Reserve Bank of India has revised its forecast of bank credit growth downwards from 18% to 16%.
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The increased volume led to a large long-term contract, which the supplier was able to take to the bank and use to win more favorable credit terms.
She said that developing countries needed to respond by beefing up bank supervision, restricting credit to fast-growing areas, imposing capital requirements that changed with the economic cycle and monitoring their foreign exchange exposures.
The point of the so-called bailout was to re-liquefy bank credit for everyone in the country and to jump-start the housing market.
But now, forward to 2007, Bank of America is offering credit cards to customers without Social Security numbers, many of whom are undocumented immigrants.
Investors in the company claim they were told to submit their investment in AmiWorld to the Bank of the Atlantic for further credit to purchase the stock shares.
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Banks are typically eager to establish relationships with college kids because they have bright futures as well as the potential to become lifetime customers, engaging in bank offerings from credit cards to checking accounts to investment and retirement portfolios.
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It's easier for farmers to get bank credit with electronically generated warehouse receipts, says Shah.
Bank credit to businesses has been shrinking for more than two years (see chart).
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Figures from the British Bankers Association (BBA) show that bank credit to small businesses in particular grew by 10% in the 12 months to September.
However, both the empirical and anecdotal evidence clearly suggests that 2011 will be a particularly difficult year for all companies to access bank credit in China.
The authorities are also desperate to stimulate bank credit.
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David Kern, chief economist at the British Chambers of Commerce, said the latest unemployment data indicated the need for the Bank to continue with a "forceful QE programme", and "in conjunction with the government, supplement this with specific measures aimed at stimulating bank lending to credit-worthy businesses".
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