From the little I know of banking, another factor leading to lending abuse may be the fact that a banker's compensation is based on the deals he/she closes, while there appears to be no penalty if a loan later goes sour. A second aspect is that on large financings (hundreds of millions - billions of dollars) the loans are syndicated and usually the exposure of the lead bank is relatively small compared to the fees that it earns.
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