Sentence examples for ceased lending from inspiring English sources

Foreign banks, unwilling to pay high taxes, have nearly ceased lending.

Fair enough, perhaps, but the scale and tenor of prosecutions has so chilled Egypt's business atmosphere that many bankers have ceased lending, for fear they could be branded criminals if their clients default.

The association asked its members to cease lending artworks to the academy and collaborating with it on exhibitions.

Although the record is not good, the paper argues that it would be unwise for the Fund to cease lending and to abandon conditionality altogether.

These include Minicredit, which ceased its lending on 10 December.

Not only has lending ceased, but the value of business owners' homes is falling, meaning owners cannot tap into home equity for their businesses.

17 According to a World Bank report, during 1986–2002, "the extraordinary instability of earlier years has continued, with thirteen governments and two periods during which most donor activities, including Bank lending, ceased altogether".

Cameron said: "You can get to a level of government debt where, not that it becomes certain that people will cease to lend you the money, but you start running risks of them demanding higher premia, higher interest rates.

He ceased Carolina's own lending program to devote the operation almost exclusively to the sale of debt instruments to raise funds for use by HomeGold.

A rating agency (Fitch) first reviewed a small sample of nonprime loan files after the secondary market in nonprime loan paper collapsed and nonprime lending virtually ceased.

Impac Mortgage Holdings, a California home lender that suspended some operations last month, now plans to cease almost all lending and omit dividends for the rest of 2007 after "disruptions" caused by rising defaults.