1. This library loans books, CDs and videotapes.

2. ICBC's loan book grew from zero to about $500m last year, while off-balance sheet activities, mainly letters of guarantee, were valued at about $1bn, Mr Tian says.

3. He would have cast one eye over the loan book with its millions of dodgy customers who could not afford their mortgages and said he wanted nothing to do with them.

4. While every bank's loan book is different, failure by other banks to post substantial increases in this reserve ratio could well unnerve investors.

5. Given the risk in Citi's loan book, that ratio needs to rise even though taking it higher could eat a massive hole in fourth-quarter earnings, and thus deplete its capital.

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6. The merged bank's Achilles heel is the corporate - loan book of HBOS.

7. The Spanish bank, which has about two-thirds of its loan book in mortgages, earlier today reported a slump in fourth-quarter profit as revenue from lending plunged.

8. But banks have been scaling back lending to developers, which now account for just 7 percent or so of all bank loans. Mortgages make up a further 12 percent of the loan book.

9. And Indian banks' total exposure to failed Western banks amounted to $1 billion, a fraction of their total loan book of $510 billion at end September, according to central bank data.

10. And not just down on the farm either : AgBank s loan book is heavily corporate.