On average they accounted for some 40% of bank lending, up from 20% a decade earlier.
In the year to September bank lending to British households rose by only 0.9%.
Inter-bank lending is drying up and some investors are withdrawing funds particularly from southern European banks.
About half of bank lending goes to state-owned enterprises, although that share is falling.
We have yet to see prosecutions for manipulation of the Libor inter-bank lending rates.
The problem is that government-directed or subsidized bank lending often has supported this buildup in capacity.
Banking is on another wave of consolidation, and bank lending is still an underdeveloped business inGreece.
There has been a big outcry about the lack of bank lending in the country.
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It comes after Beijing has cut stimulus measures, closed inefficient factories and curbed bank lending.
Project Merlin creates an image of a wizzardly solution to the lack of bank lending.
Over-all bank lending to firms and households remains below the level it reached in 2008.
However, the weekend China data also showed bank lending growth weaker than expected in September.
Unified rules putting limits on bank lending would go a long way toward that goal.
Companies can, of course, go to the banks, and bank lending has indeed been increasing.
Before the economic crisis, bank lending was very weak to non-existent for tribal businesses.
Rising foreign-exchange reserves boost the money supply, causing higher inflation and excessive bank lending.
Chinese bank lending in April and early May came in well below their predicted targets.
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Under QE, central banks inject fresh money into the economy to help boost bank lending.
The economy crashed and bank lending to business owners came to a screeching halt.
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If these are counted in, the government's share of bank lending rises to 35%.
On Tuesday, the three-month inter-bank lending rate declined to 4.63% from 4.83% late last week.
Before the credit crunch bank lending to businesses grew by about 15% a year.
Cheap loans encourage an overdependence on bank lending and hinder the development of capital markets.
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Brazil is trying to curb inflation by raising taxes on dollar inflows and bank lending, for example.
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Bank lending is the single largest credit counterpart of broad money but by itself is not money.
Still, in terms of bank lending, Mexico still lags behind many of its peers in Latin America.
At least in other developing countries the government's role in bank lending has been much less overt.
As such, higher inflation is a ways off until well after bank lending materially boosts M2 money supply.
Corporate-bond issuance is on track to shatter records this year, largely offsetting the slump in bank lending.
It was only with the growth of bank lending in the late 1990s that this died out.
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