US Airways, which emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2003, agreed to repay $250 million of its loans early, and to post a profit in 2005.
Those with books on loan were told to post them through the letterbox.
"Greece is somewhere in between a mature and an emerging market," says Nicholas Nanopoulos, Eurobank's boss.The countries that fringe Greece are more dynamic still: Bulgaria and Romania are expected to post loan growth of 50% this year, for example.
Years later, when Miccoli was making his own fortune despite being loaned out from pillar to post by Juventus, he paid €25,000, about $32,000, for a diamond earring that once belonged to his idol.
While Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are the 800-pound gorillas in the mortgage jungle, what really tipped the balance in favor of credit-score disclosure was the decision last February by E-Loan, an Internet mortgage provider, to post FICO scores on its Web site.
At the same time, a steep decline in land and apartment prices, engineered by the government to improve the affordability of housing, has left many companies without enough collateral to post to qualify for loans.
Playing host to a gathering of this type is a feather in the cap of Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan's dictator since its birth in 1991, but it is turning into an embarrassment for the bank.The EBRD is not, it is true, primarily a political organisation, its goal being to extend soft loans to the post-communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including the former republics of the Soviet Union.
Saudi Arabia and the emirates pledged $8 billion in grants and loans to Egypt's post-Morsi government last month: $5 billion from Saudi Arabia in grants and loans; $3 billion from the emirates.
It takes just under a second for a loan to go from posted to bought on the platform.
IKB Deutsche Industriebank, the bank that is being bailed out after investing in subprime loans, will post a loss of up to 700 million euros, or $954 million, for the fiscal year.
