These community loan funds each have less than $1 million in lendable assets.

Less Government borrowing makes more money available for the public to borrow from the limited pool of lendable funds.

If they published their book at the 70% royalty level, the book would be lendable.

It threatens to reduce the amount of lendable deposits, which can contribute to credit shortages.

"People are very lendable on a post-closing basis."

Nor should interest rates be affected, since the dollars borrowed to make the payoff will flow back into the lendable funds of the banking sector.

India's central bank on Saturday kept interest rates unchanged but cut commercial banks' lendable resources, in a bid to fight double-digit inflation.

But commercial banks have indirectly been sending their own signals - that they are amply supplied with lendable reserves.

The perpetual notes were a boon to issuers because they are a constant source of economical, lendable funds.

It arranged a big new pool of lendable funds to finance future bailouts, and streamlined its lending procedures so borrowers could get credit more quickly.

When borrowers compete for a budget-reduced pool of lendable dollars, the price of money - i.e., the interest rate - tends to rise.

The outreach program coordinates in-school programs, scout tours, displays at public events, and offers lendable environmental educational kits for teachers and group leaders.

The I.M.F. represents a pool of more than $40 billion of lendable money, drawn mainly from member governments' quotas.

The trend toward consolidation in the banking industry "raises the specter of a large-scale diversion of lendable funds from local communities," Mr. Gonzalez said.

The underlying premise being that with fixed payments the once volatile renewable energy projects now become lendable and attractive for financing, thus stimulating growth and innovation.

Passive foreign investment in a nation state's finance system allows for more lending to be made when global finance system conditions constrict the amount of lendable money.

Officials say the I.M.F. will take its share from its $40 billion pool of lendable resources or from a special fund that creditor countries would set up.

In the 1920's, virtually every bank in the country sent its lendable funds to New York to support the call-loan market, thereby starving local markets, like Midwestern farmers.

Owned by 151 member governments, which take up capital giving them voting rights (the United States has 18 percent), the bank supplements its lendable funds by borrowing in world financial markets.

Innovation, even gimmickry, has taken hold as libraries expand their lendable wares to such nonliterary objects as videocassettes and videocassette players, computer terminals, sewing machines, tools, toys and pets.

Funds Drying Up Sources of lendable funds have virtually dried up for small agricultural banks, which rely heavily on local depositors who are now financially strapped by the poor farm economy.

The Music Department (ground floor H Block) has two orchestral rehearsal rooms, a computer lab, eight solo to quartet practise rooms, a locker room, a lendable instrumental storage room and department office.

Banks pay the Federal funds rate for overnight loans from other banks, and the Federal Reserve indirectly controls this rate by buying and selling Government bonds, thereby adding or subtracting from banks' reserves of lendable cash.

Although the intent with both methods is the same, to stimulate growth in the alternative and renewable energy space, REP's have proven to offer benefits to local jobs, businesses and economies while making the growth fundable and lendable by financial institutions.

The South African forward sales coincided with a shortage of lendable gold to cover the sale, which helped push the current price of gold higher and caused a spike in the cost of leasing the gold to cover a forward sale.