1.   But it has not sought to gain the backing of an official international financial institution.

2.   But there are substantial legal problems as major financial institutions literally pick up the pieces and look to their future.

3.   Companies must work with financial institutions to boost their ability to deal on a global basis.

4.   Does the future lie with diversified financial conglomerates or with highly specialized financial institutions?

5.   Essentially the series is a weighted average of the share of total assets that different financial institutions were permitted to invest overseas.

6.   Fasit promises to do so for other assets, to be held in trusts set up by financial institutions.

7.   Few financial institutions are prepared to lend to proprietors and partnerships on this basis.

8.   Financial assets are issued by borrowers and traded by financial institutions who hold them.

9.   Financial institutions - which act as intermediaries between lenders and borrowers, and manage their own asset portfolios.