1.   Banks have taken a close look at their loan portfolios and turned white with fear.

2.   Analysts blamed fears that lower corporate profits and a slowdown would hurt loan portfolios.

3.   Analysts still would like to see more revenue growth, especially in the loan portfolio.

4.   And as long as bankers are busy padding up weak loan portfolios, they may be reluctant to extend new ones.

5.   And it came the very same year that a chief rival, State Street Corp., exited traditional banking entirely and sold its corporate loan portfolio.

6.   Asahi Bank, Fuji Bank and others are shrinking their loan portfolios, firing workers and shutting branches.

7.   Banamex is in the process of trying to sell the Mexican government a portion of its overdue loan portfolio and raise additional capital to strengthen its financial situation.

8.   Brook Vandervliet, analyst with Lehman Brothers in New York, said the company had serious problems with its loan portfolio.

9.   But both have plans for the franchise loan portfolios.

10.   But a prolonged slowdown in the tech sector could threaten its loan portfolio.