Banks told to use cash piles to boost lending

BANK of England watchdog the Financial Policy Committee (FPC), said banks should be allowed to tap into their cash piles to keep lending flowing.

The FPC said banks are passing on some of the higher funding costs they are facing on to interest rates for company and household lending and warned this could lead to a spiral of decline if the economy were to weaken further.

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