1.   A proposal to double the amount of money founding banks will invest in a new fund to be created in the deposit insurance system is now being considered.

2.   The combined bank, Shin-Hokkaido Bank, will concentrate on regional banking and writing down the bad debt held by the two founding banks.

3.   He told Hashimoto that the founding banks should clarify their responsibilities in the bailout scheme.

4.   Under the government scheme, the founding banks will write off all loans they made to the jusen companies when they are liquidated.