11.   Ten years after they financed overvalued real estate in Tokyo, the same Japanese banks are financing overvalued real estate in Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur.

12.   The bank must finance equity stakes in East European businesses through capital and reserves.

13.   The bank once financed only those exports manufactured entirely in the United States.

14.   The bank will finance the expansion itself.

15.   The bank does not finance electric vehicles, however.

16.   The banks will finance half of the purchase price through international loans, and the rest by using existing cash holdings.

17.   The new owners used varying combinations of city subsidies, bank financing and a federal low-income housing tax credit to underwrite the reconstructions.

18.   There has been growing speculation over the last two weeks that Yasuda would fail, which has made it impossible for the bank to finance day-to-day operations.

19.   American business gets a large proportion of the contracts for the projects that the banks finance.

20.   AOL purchased Bertelsmann AG from the AOL Europe online joint venture using commercial paper and bank financing, said Brendan Buckley, senior director at Fitch Ratings.