Just impediment: Bank of Tokyo
Article Abstract:
The Bank of Tokyo needs capital, but a merger is not necessary, as critics claim. Its strengths include foreign-exchange loan expertise, a less costly foreign branch network, freedom of choice in dealing with Japanese companies, and relative dynamics of Third World and domestic debt.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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Land-locked
Article Abstract:
Falling prices in Japan's real estate market are affecting the balance sheets of the nation's banks. At least two-fifths of all loans are secured by land and mortgages. Borrowers used this collateral to extract huge sums of money from banks in the 1980's.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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Surviving, just: Danish banks
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Danish financial service companies have not collapsed like their Nordic neighbors, but they are just holding on. Der Danske Bank bought a stake in Baltica Insurance to bail out parent Baltica Holdings, and Unidanmark will lose about $679 million in 1992.
Publication Name: The Economist (UK)
Subject: Business, international
ISSN: 0013-0613
Year: 1992
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