The British government had to provide a trade loan of 3 million pounds to prevent the economy from collapsing.

The early references to Insurance in these texts have reference to marine trade loans and carriers' contracts.

It also reschedules old loans and covers various short-term trade loans.

Rising rates also reduce the prices that savings institutions can get for selling or trading loans in the secondary markets.

Profits were strong from interest-rate swaps and trading loans of less-developed countries.

That goes for hedge funds as well as any other entity that owns or trades loans.

Citibank seized about $80 million in deposits from the Central Bank of Ecuador to pay off an outstanding trade loan.

He has set up Klesch & Co to trade loans in troubled companies such as Heron and to advise on corporate restructurings.

It used to involving remittance and deposit account businesses, but it switched to engage in export and import trading loan, international settlement after 1970s.

Banks have also been much more aggressive at trading loans in the secondary market, selling what they own of loans to troubled companies well before the businesses land in bankruptcy.

Mr. Scherban, 32, is an account executive at Trade Settlement, a New York company, which operates an automated system for trading loans between banks and financial service companies.

A number of hedge funds are particularly active in extending and trading loans, including Highland Capital Management, Canyon Capital and Silver Point Capital.

At some funds, the person trading loans, who may have access to confidential information, often sits next to the person trading the bonds - or, in some cases, may be the same person.

Mr. Hawke proposed a plan today to intensify financial pressure on South Africa, calling for banks to impose tougher conditions on day-to-day trading loans, limiting the term of the loans to 90 days.

This included subsidizing a third of Gabon's budget, extending low-interest trade loans, paying the salaries of 170 French advisers and 350 French teachers and paying scholarships for most of the roughly 800 Gabonese who study in France every year.

The SBA 7a - international trade loans and export working capital loans have been increased to $5 million, And though the expansion of its SBIC program, SBA provides access to more equity capital than ever before.

International Trade loans are available to small businesses that are in a position to expand existing export markets or develop new export markets, or small businesses that have been adversely affected by international trade and can demonstrate that the loan proceeds will improve their competitive position.