Sentences with phrase «controls on bank lending»

The officials said Britain had cut the size of the national debt as a percentage of GDP after the second world war, but mainly through controls on bank lending and inflation eroding the value of the debt.

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This included the unwinding of some shadow banking and interbank activities, controls on wealth management operations, trust structures and interbank lending structures.

Controls were put on lending by banks and on organisations in the non-bank financial sector (shadow banking).

Russians would pay mortgage interest in domestic rubles, but the banks would convert their earnings on this lending into foreign exchange to remit to the investors who would have bought control of them.

AdelaideBank, a division of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, will today (Wed) announce stricter controls on apartment lending that include bigger sizes, better design, identifiable cash flows for investor / lands and more stringent calculations of a borrowers» capacity to repay.

This was the year that Beijing was expected to step up its controls on unfettered lending, particularly in the so - called shadow banking area, as it seeks to contain a dangerous build up in debt across much of the economy.

Commenting on the provisional Project Merlin figures which have been issued today showing that the banks loaned # 37.4 billion to small firms — just short of their commitment to lend # 38 billion, John Walker, National Chairman, Federation of Small Businesses, said: «While it looks like the banks are on course to meet their full year lending commitment, targets do not address the underlying problems in the banking sector where only a handful of banks control the majority of the market.

Mr Darling said: «Like any lender on this scale, we have ensured that the Bank's lending is subject to significant conditions and controls to ensure that our interests are protected, and in return for this facility Northern Rock has agreed a number of controls.»

All the banter about an interest rate increase boils down to the Federal Reserve Bank's control over the federal funds rate — the cost at which banks and credit unions lend their reserve balances to other banks and credit unions on a short - term basis.