71.   Since then, about a dozen Czech banks have collapsed, or fallen under central bank control, because of fraud, problem loans and mismanagement.

72.   Some problem loans have not been reported because large construction companies guaranteed bank loans to risky real estate developers.

73.   Soon after the devaluation, the government also began purchasing problem loans from banks to help shore up their finances.

74.   SunTrust Banks does not sell its problem loans to a subsidiary, said spokesman Gary Peacock.

75.   Such measures would promote the sale of property banks hold as collateral on problem loans.

76.   Taking control of InverMexico will be especially profitable, Rodriguez Inciarte said, since the company has been stripped of the problem loans that hindered its financial health.

77.   That means many problem loans that went unreported in the past should be caught.

78.   That check allowed the government to cleanse the banking system of problem banks and problem loans.

79.   That slowdown will lead to higher problem loans than we have had, but the numbers will not be Draconian, so profitability will continue.

80.   The bank, like so many others, reported a surge of problem loans in the third quarter.