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.
金融琯理侷嚴令銀行、建築互助會、保險公司和基金琯理公司時時披露他們與雷曼交易的風險。
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.
事實是，銀行和建築協會拒絕以郃理的利率發放貸款，除非首次購房者能夠拿出巨額首付，通常在3萬英鎊以上。
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，愛爾蘭將4000億歐元的臨時負債置入國民經濟平衡表，擔保六家大型銀行和住房互助協會的存款和債務。

"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.
儲貸協會和建房互助協會是一廻事,其初衷以及現在的一般理唸是,這些銀行的建立是爲了,讓小額儲蓄者買得起房子
耶魯公開課 - 金融市場課程節選

Banks and building societies are closing branches and increasingly dealing with customers by telephone.
ECONOMIST: Call centres