21.   They started granting blacks loans.

22.   Under Communism, banking meant granting loans to state-owned companies and moving capital where state policy dictated it was needed.

23.   A UBS official said the bank is working on an alternative solution that would grant the loan directly to individual companies rather than the group as a whole.

24.   A UBS official said the bank is working on an alternative solution that would grant the loan to individual companies rather than the group as a whole.

25.   Alho came under fire last week after she revealed she had agreed to reduce the fine imposed on Ulf Sundqvist for negligence in granting loans at the STS bank.

26.   An informed source said Sukhumbhand also asked Japan to help negotiate with the IMF for a relaxation of the stringent conditions for granting loans to Thailand.

27.   Biancarelli, who arrived in Syria on Sunday for a two-day visit, said Assad had encouraged him to grant loans to private companies in Syria.

28.   But the bankers argue loans were granted under standard international business procedures requiring assets or collateral lacked by many blacks.

29.   But he said he was innocent of other charges of wrongdoing and that he had helped many small traders by granting them loans.

30.   Car and home loans were often granted with only a signature.