From that day on, The Human Sponge was just a sweetie... except around money-lenders.
But other firms must turn to the "back-alley bankers" and "kerbside lenders" that make up Wenzhou's informal financial system.
Conscious of the scale of personal debt, lenders are rushing to ensure they are first in any queue.
A day later South Korean regulators said that they would soon begin to audit lenders handling foreign-currency derivatives to curb volatility caused by capital inflows.
The housing crisis has also forced lenders to tighten up on credit standards in the hopes that loans will stop being made to people who cannot afford them over the long term.
Establishing a fund for small lenders to help small businesses.
Poor people are increasingly at the mercy of heartless money-lenders.
Germany's finance minister says he'll support more money for the Greeks only if lenders agree to take a haircut first.
According to a recent report by the World Bank, private lenders have granted borrowers more flexibility with loan covenants and demanded fewer third-party guarantees.
Politicians are pushing through spending cuts, not only to reassure external lenders, but also to meet the Maastricht deficit target of 3% of GDP so as to adopt the euro soon (by 2011, Estonia hopes).
While other lenders struggled, he ramped up his sales efforts.
Any lenders fear lawsuits from mortgage bondholders if they start writing down loan values.
Having good credit is crucial, because otherwise you will be bled to death by lenders when you need to borrow money.
ICBC is now said to be interested in the Royal Bank of Scotland's Asian assets, along with Australia's ANZ Bank and Anglo-Asian lenders HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank.
Ireland's bloated banking sector needs fewer, smaller lenders.
Even where borrowers are on the hook, lenders often find it too costly to pursue unpaid debts.
In the past, only a handful of lenders provided loans to students from abroad without requiring them to find a US resident who was willing to co-sign the loan.
Several lenders, including Countrywide, America's largest mortgage lender, have stopped making no-money-down mortgage loans.
It would be better for the poor if the IFIs and donors left the best credit risks to profit-seeking lenders and concentrated instead on those still stuck outside the system.
As the economy flirts with recession, attention is turning to America's more than 8,000, mostly small, regional lenders.
It's not just me. Other lenders do this, too.
Predatory lenders and crooked mortgage lenders walked away with millions in ill-gotten gains.
But we learned guarantees are insufficient, because many small lenders cannot get the currency financing.
They had to pay their own lenders, of course, but that wasn't a problem — there was always someplace to borrow more money with which to make the payments.
In so doing, Bank of China and other foreign lenders are taking advantage of underwriting terms and spreads that are particularly attractive today, analysts say.
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