First of all, the prime lending rate is the interest rate that Banks charge each other for short term loans.

首先，基本放款利率是银行间相互进行短期借贷时使用的利率。

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These disclosure statements must meet the same rules laid out in truth-in-lending laws, since overdraft charges are essentially short-term loans.

因为透支的费用基本上是短期贷款，这些披露声明必须符合《诚信借贷法案》中同样的规则。

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The Fed has also taken several measures to buoy the financial industry, such as allowing more banks access to low-interest, short-term loans.

美联储也已经采取了几项措施激励金融业，比如让更多的银行获取低息、短期贷款。

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Now incidentally, often bank loans to corporations are short-term, technically, so the bank is both lending short and borrowing short.

顺便说一下,技术上讲,银行借给公司的都是短期贷款,银行同时进行短期借贷业务

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So what banks offer is liquidity -the ability to borrow short even though the loans that are made are long-term.

而银行就提供了流动性,即接受短期存款,但可以发放长期贷款的能力

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Payday loans, short term loans intended to be paid off on payday, were developed in the United States.

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In just a few years Wonga has a become a massive online lender in the UK by instantly underwriting and dynamically pricing short term loans.

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Instead it will probably provide Treasury bills, or very short term loans, which are a proxy for cash, because otherwise it thinks that the scheme could complicate the way it controls the amount of money in the economy (monetary policy) in some unspecified way.

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