(BRUSSELS ) - The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU's lending arm, on Monday proposed to increase loans to Europe's ailing auto sector as part of a broader financing plan.

MOSCOW — A partnership of electricity producers said Wednesday that its members were planning to ask the government for tens of billions of dollars of cheap loans to finance their efforts to build up capacity amid the global liquidity crunch.

Fighting losses on its real-estate construction loans, Meridian Bank announced Friday that its wealthy Minnesota owners have infused it with more than $50 million in capital and bought more than $100 million of its real-estate investments. Most of that in

Manappuram General Finance and Leasing Limited (MAGFIL), a Thrissur-based non-banking finance company, has proposed a Rs 100 crore equity infusion during the current fiscal.

Europe's biggest bank HSBC reported a 28 percent fall in its first-half profit, in line with forecasts, as a $14 billion hit on bad debts on U.S. home loans and asset writedowns offset strong Asian growth.