The bank will soon report data on international bank lending quarterly, rather than just twice a year, and it hopes to help spot incipient crises by providing information on borrowers' obligations at home as well as abroad.

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Ex-Barclays CEO Robert Diamond quit in July after revelations that the bank had been involved in an international scheme to manipulate interbank lending rates.

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Unfortunately, with the imminent creation of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the prospect of large-scale international lending to the Soviet Union is looming.

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"Lending remains naturally a core business for us, " a spokeswoman for Raiffeisen Bank International said.

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Kenya's Equity Bank has formed an alliance with groups such as The International Fund for Agricultural Development to reduce its risks when lending to smallholders.

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The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) argued in its recent annual report that huge growth in bank reserves was driving overnight-lending rates to zero, causing the market for unsecured overnight lending to atrophy.

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