With banks continuing to insist that they were doing their bit, impartial observers were likely to have been frustrated by the lack of facts and figures that could have been used to weigh up the competing claims.
In a week when Barclays provided proof of just how much money some banks have been making in the UK recently, lenders came under renewed fire from champions of small business for not doing enough to help firms.
With banks continuing to insist that they were doing their bit, impartial observers were likely to have been frustrated by the lack of facts and figures that could have been used to weigh up the competing claims.