loan book

The bank is expected to initially lend fairly small amounts but could rapidly expand its loan book.

In the last two years, the loan book for the sector as a whole has expanded by more than 50%.

East West's commercial-loan book grew 35% in the second quarter from a year earlier, and its profit rose 67% to $61 million.

It could promote the interests of favoured investors, use CDOs to hedge its own loan book or even take a trading position.

Half-way through 2006, when the rest of the financial world still partied, delinquencies on its loan book were soaring.

And not just down on the farm either: AgBank's loan book is heavily corporate.

Whenever a South Korean bank wants to expand its loan book faster than its retail deposits, it relies on foreign borrowing to fill the gap.

Computed with the overall loan book that the China Construction Bank or Chinese banking overall has, then it is really quite small.

The right, albeit painful, solution is to run the loan book down.

Mr Guo reckons that lending to consumers and small firms could rise to 40% of CCB's loan book within five years, from about a quarter today.

The investigators found little evidence that any of the Saudi borrowers in TIBC's $2. 2 billion loan-book were genuine.

Bank of China, one of the so-called Big Four banks, increased its loan book 44% in the 12 months ending September.

With government backing, the bank could, for example, expand its loan book, by offering generous terms to future borrowers.

The days of building up a big loan book without bothering about deposits or branches may be over.

Some banks have almost their entire leveraged loan book in covenant default or on default watch.

A couple days ago, the Chairman of ICBC announced that LGFV loans accounted for 10% of his bank's total loan book.

When the financial markets recover, it should be possible to sell the residual loan book.

Sberbank controls almost a third of the country's deposits and has a mixed loan book.

The merged bank's Achilles heel is the corporate-loan book of HBOS.

Shanghai-based investors have voiced concerns about a slowdown in China's economic growth and the quality of AgBank's loan book.

Around 20% of banks' loan book is directly tied to the real-estate sector.

On the $38 billion leveraged loan book, 76% of the borrowers are rated below B , and 28% are below B-.

Its loan book is larger than the smallest 25 cajas combined, according to estimates by Credit Suisse.

ICBC currently doesn't have a projection set for its loan book.

The development companies now account for 10 per cent of ICBC's loan book.

New loan quotas have been pegged flat at last year's rates , putting a cap on rampant loan-book expansion .

Last year it expanded its loan book by 27%.

Bank of East Asia's loan book is made up mainly of loans to Hong Kong companies that are active on the mainland.