1.   The revised figures were unlikely to satisfy the Opposition, much less the foreign bankers on whom Britain depended for her rescue from imminent bankruptcy.

2.   Analysts say the Irish investment probably does not presage a wholesale invasion of Singapore by foreign bankers.

3.   Approaching foreign bankers was pointless, he added, because they are afraid of Nigerian corruption.

4.   A guarantee from the government to foreign bankers may not be worth much.

5.   A foreign banker based in Madrid put it a little differently.

6.   But other experts warned that foreign bankers should not make any assumptions.

7.   Competition among foreign investment banks to manage them is intense, government officials and foreign bankers said.

8.   Foreign bankers based in Seoul stress that no agreement has been reached, dismissing reports in the Korean media that they are prepared to reschedule the debt.

9.   Foreign banks may be forced into a business slowdown by new interest rate limits announced by the State Bank of Vietnam, foreign bankers said.

10.   Foreign bankers have criticized the Japanese institutions for their lack of disclosure of financial information, particularly bad debt.