House prices were 18.9% higher in April than a year ago, according to Nationwide, a big lender.
Bradesco, a big lender, is internationally praised as a pioneer of automated banking.
Citigroup knew that Enron, to which it was a big lender, carried risks.
C1 Lender May Seek Bankruptcy Conseco, a big lender to buyers of mobile homes, said its turnaround efforts had failed.
The same goes for big customers, by which I mean Adani, the Indian group to which the bank is a big lender.
Meanwhile, Dexia's board was still working to figure out how keep financing flowing to French municipalities where it was a big lender.
D. Bryan Jordan, the chief executive of First Horizon, a big lender based in Tennessee, said the likelihood that his bank would participate was somewhat low.
Analysts had been expecting an increase.Investigations into trading in the shares of New Century Financial, a big lender in the subprime-mortgage market, highlighted ongoing problems in the industry.
A cloud of uncertainty still hangs over its potential losses from duff mortgages inherited through the acquisitions of Countrywide, a big lender, and Merrill Lynch, one-time packager of the most egregious structured securities on Wall Street.
"The small building societies and challenger banks have been quite good in offering them for certain people, but to have a big lender coming in is a game-changer," says Andrew Montlake of mortgage broker Coreco.
You can't go back and say, 'Oh, that would look nicer there.' A big lender might have five or six works in different rooms, so drawing up an installation schedule is perhaps the trickiest thing of all.
