building societies

基本解释

The Financial Services Authority demanded precise updates from banks, building societies, insurance companies and fund management firms of their exposures to Lehman.
金融管理局严令银行、建筑互助会、保险公司和基金管理公司时时披露他们与雷曼交易的风险。
The evidence is that banks and building societies are refusing to lend at reasonable interest rates unless first-time buyers come up with huge deposits, which are often more than ￡30, 000.
事实是，银行和建筑协会拒绝以合理的利率发放贷款，除非首次购房者能够拿出巨额首付，通常在3万英镑以上。
Separately, Ireland took euro400 billion of contingent liabilities onto the national balance sheet, when it stood behind the deposits and debts of its six large banks and building societies.
此外，爱尔兰将4000亿欧元的临时负债置入国民经济平衡表，担保六家大型银行和住房互助协会的存款和债务。

"We are not backing away. We are going full steam ahead with our programs in Iran and across the region,again in order to create that space for civil societies to actually play the proper role that we would all understand in building more accountable democratic governing institutions,".
Savings and Loans are the same as Building Societies, but the idea--the original idea and also the general idea today -is that these are banks set up for small savers in order that they can buy a house.
储贷协会和建房互助协会是一回事,其初衷以及现在的一般理念是,这些银行的建立是为了,让小额储蓄者买得起房子
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Banks and building societies are closing branches and increasingly dealing with customers by telephone.
ECONOMIST: Call centres