Meanings of shore up banks in English

More governments are moving to help shore up banks, including Japan and Belgium.

More governments, including Japan's and Belgium's, are moving to help shore up banks.

European governments scrambled to shore up banks on Monday as the credit crisis hit Germany, Britain, Belgium and beyond.

U.S. President Barack Obama has proposed a levy to recoup $90 billion of public money used so far to shore up banks.

Italy has said it would make more than 20 billion euros ($27 billion) available to shore up banks.

The central bank has poured billions of dollars worth of liquidity into shoring up banks' strength.

But deep differences remain over whether the European Central Bank should commit more resources to shoring up banks and help struggling euro zone states.