Lending across borders to borrowers abroad is now big business for many transnational banks. Although transnational banks are increasingly engaged in socially responsible programmes in their home countries, they have not yet adequately extended similar programmes to the new market, although there are some examples (very few in number) in which transnational banks have extended this line of activity abroad. To the extent that the international market offers fewer opportunities for growth than in the early 1970s, many transnational banks recognize the importance of developing countries as a market.