Together with the government, it will provide billions of pounds of cheap credit to banks to lend to companies.
Both of us working but was never able to build credit because we had a zero credit score, noone would lend to us, not even a gas card, because we were judged by a credit score.
While the current ratings of bond insurers lend nothing to the credit standing of the bond issuer, most insured issues should still be viewed as having viable insurance backing in case of distress.
That is what the Bank of England is doing by providing subsidised credit to banks that lend more, what the ECB is set to do when it resumes purchasing sovereign bonds, and what the Fed could do by buying more mortgage-backed securities.
Declines in deposits, a majorsource of funds for banks to lend out, appeared to intensify a credit squeeze in many countries.
Should the taxpayer, in other words, take on some of the credit risk of lending to businesses, so that banks can lend to the businesses they don't regard as credit worthy, but perhaps ought to be supported - in the hope that some of these unbankable companies will turn into fast-growing winners.
Banks were unwilling to lend money to people without credit histories or proof of permanent residence.
It said it won't make loans without down payments and won't lend to borrowers with credit scores below 600.
At the moment, Brazil's banking system is peculiar: commercial banks lend to the government and supply consumers credit, but do not provide much debt to businesses, which mostly finance themselves from retained profits.
Now bankers are scrambling to limit how much money they will have to lend through these pre-existing credit lines, which they are obligated to do, just as their own balance sheets are stressed by limited ability to borrow from fellow banks.
Banks, even though pressured to extend credit to unviable projects, are still reluctant to lend.
And we guaranteed some of these loans by up to 90 percent, which has given local banks and credit unions the confidence they need to lend.
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He also announced a new "statement of principles" for high street banks to put pressure on them to lend to small businesses and action to encourage more responsible lending by credit card companies.
Nobody seems to care that you are being paid piddling amounts to lend your money to the U.S Treasury debt which has credit ratings that defy gravity.
There was already a sense that the plan would not be enough to break the log jam in the credit markets, where banks are even refusing to lend to each other.
Add in the enthusiasm of foreign banks to lend either to Korean banks or directly to overly ambitious chaebol and a perfect credit storm was in the works.
We are experiencing something very similar to what happened in 2007-8, when it became increasingly hard for banks in the developed west to borrow and to lend, and that credit crunch transmuted into banking crisis, which transmuted into the worst recession since the 1930s.
While the ability of some smaller banks to lend is restricted by the loan-to-deposit ratio regulations, sluggish credit expansion was not primarily a result of liquidity constraints, Barclays analysts said.
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Regarding the mistaken bailouts of the banks themselves, they offer a much better explanation for why banks today are so reluctant to lend to anyone but the best of credit risks.
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An accommodative monetary policy would involve keeping the fed funds rate (the short-term rate at which banks lend to each other) at historic lows so as to encourage consumption and provide cheaper credit to consumers and businesses.
Some private-sector lenders might be foolish enough to lend to a country with such a dismal credit history, but no current debt burden.
Louis Fed, yet they have been criticized for failing to lend those out, given tighter credit markets and lower loan demand amid a slow economy.
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Eurozone banks may then find it even hard to borrow, and therefore to lend, potentially sparking a second credit crunch, where bank lending effectively dries up, hurting the economy further.
Credit markets froze and banks refused to lend.
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More importantly, the credit markets, especially the ones where banks lend to each other, look more relaxed.
Raising the rate paid on reserve balances also discourages excessive growth in money or credit, because banks will not want to lend out their reserves at rates below what they can earn at the Fed.
Forecasts like that from central bankers are relevant because it is the central banks that not only make monetary policy deciding how much credit will cost, and often how to lend it but they also provide much of the brain power to central governments, framing much of the way policy makers think about their own economy in the years ahead.
Clients continued to flee and creditors refused to lend to the firm, which had suffered from major credit-related write-downs.
The credit union also prides itself on being able to lend to some people with ill health whom a bank or a building society would not entertain.
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