1.   Recent agreements with creditor banks had, however, reduced such balance of payment uncertainties.

2.   The slump in stock prices put Japanese creditor banks under an additional pressure because it simultaneously eroded their own capital bases.

3.   Another creditor bank, Korea First Bank, said it would make a statement on the new developments later today or Friday.

4.   As a result, interest rates have soared to levels that have devastated Indonesian companies and their creditor domestic banks.

5.   Asia Motors and its biggest creditor bank downplayed the incident, quashing speculation it could follow Hanbo Group and Sammi Group into receivership.

6.   Brazil rescheduled its foreign commercial debts with creditor banks in March.

7.   -- Patrick Ponsolle, co-chairman of Eurotunnel, denying a Agence France-Presse report that the company had reached a debt restructuring accord with creditor banks.

8.   A legal challenge could drag on for years, effectively blocking the restructuring, said one analyst with a creditor bank, who did not want to be named.

9.   Construction companies fell amid continuing concern about the ability of contractors -- and their creditor banks -- to carry bad debt.

10.   Construction companies fell amid continuing concern about the ability of contractors -- and their creditor banks --to carry bad debt.