As a consequence, he ordered banks to make weekly statements to the Board of Currency.

The central government recently ordered state-controlled banks to tighten lending to huge shopping mall projects.

To enforce those bans, the Treasury could have ordered American banks to stop doing business with the gambling companies.

Federal regulators have ordered banks to more than double their reserves for loans to Argentina, an official said today.

Late in March, the central bank ordered commercial banks to keep more capital reserves on deposit.

In May, regulators ordered banks to choose their borrowers more carefully, including those for car loans.

Now, China has ordered banks to cut lending for iron, steel, aluminum and automobile manufacturing.

In another decree, he ordered state-owned banks to contribute a chunk of their revenues to two other foundations.

On May 15, 1997, they sold dollars and simultaneously ordered banks not to lend to foreign speculators.

The regulators ordered other industrial banks that did not have Federal deposit insurance to stop accepting deposits.