Sentence examples for finance lending from inspiring English sources

The new program, called the Consumer and Business Lending Initiative, was conceived as a way to finance lending to consumers.

That could slow the economic recovery, or even wreck it.Considering the huge scale of British finance, lending to firms is modest.

The sale is part of an effort by the Washington-based I.M.F. to raise $500 billion to finance lending to help economies battered by the global downturn.

In a joint announcement, the Fed and the Treasury said they would extend the program but they also announced pointedly that they would not expand the program to finance lending backed by additional kinds of collateral.

With stock trading and money management less attractive businesses to be in, banks are appreciative of millions of depositors' savings, collected in dribs and drabs, which are a steady source of profit and a way to finance lending.

LOAN PRACTICES OF CHINA'S BANKS RAISE CONCERN  |  Some of China's largest banks have been sending text messages to the phones of many of the country's wealthy, trying to raise cash to finance lending outside the scrutiny of bank regulators, David Barboza reports in The New York Times.

The bank expects to carry on doubling its micro-finance lending over the next few years, which means that in 2002 it will devote $1 billion to this business, a big chunk of its $3 billion annual lending target.Since it was created, the EBRD has struggled to reconcile various conflicting roles.

First, firms can get involved with "vendor financing"—lending to customers to help them buy their products.

They have financed lending operations, helped companies sell shares to the public and, in some cases, formed partnerships with the companies.

The deal, hashed out by Representatives Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, the House minority whip, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, the House majority leader, would increase the bank's trade financing lending limit to $140 billion over three years.

The two firms are the industry leaders in the (once) lucrative business of providing hedge funds with financing, lending them shares for short-selling purposes, settling trades and housing fund assets.