91.   Ranked among the top five business banks, the bank is also a major lender to many Thai banks, including Bangkok Bank and Thai Danu Bank.

92.   Recapitalising Thai banks is a key to recovery, but how much of this is possible when the economy is in recession?

93.   Shady dealings lift Thai bank into scandal big leagues.

94.   Small Thai banks often send employees on door-to-door missions to find new clients or increase deposits from old ones, but the practice is unusual in Bangkok.

95.   Siri reportedly said that liquidity or money was scarce because Thai banks needed more time for recapitalisation to meet the new capital-adequacy standards.

96.   Siam Commercial Bank is the first Thai bank to join a government recapitalization assistance program, under which the Finance Ministry swapped government bonds for preferred shares.

97.   Thai banks are unwilling to lend while they are not getting payments on outstanding loans.

98.   Thai banks now apparently prefer to lend to the central bank through the repurchase market since it offers high interest rates.

99.   Thai banks remain forbidden from supplying baht to non-residents unless they can prove the money will not be used for speculation.

100.   Thai newspapers on Thursday reported that Citibank wanted to take over city branches of the Thai bank.