1.   There are also local credit associations that exchange credit information.

2.   Bad debts include loans to bankrupt companies and loans on which interest has not been collected for more than six months, for all banks and credit associations.

3.   - A state credit association, which wanted a consultant.

4.   A bailout of a small credit association found a bank with heavy ties to organized crime.

5.   However, that change in regulations did not lead directly to enormous lending to the jusen by the farm credit associations.

6.   Regulators suspended operations of a Japanese credit association Monday evening after depositors swarmed to the institution earlier in the day to withdraw their money.

7.   The farm credit associations were created during the Depression to help farmers and ranchers obtain short-term government loans.

8.   The industry has already been rocked by the collapse of three banks and dozens of credit associations in the past two years under the weight of bad loans.

9.   The main West Indian asset was an almost religious devotion to the rotating credit associations that capitalized their businesses and that anthropologists trace back to Africa.

10.   They are setting up grocery stores and rotating credit associations.