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Funding for Lending declines, but SME lending increases says BBA - UPDATE

Thu, 28th Aug 2014 11:35

The Bank of England's scheme to improve credit to small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) failed to prevent further declines in lending to the UK's growth engine during the second quarter. However the British Banking Association (BBA) also published data on Thursday, which indicated a pickup in borrowing by small and medium sized businesses, with the highest quarterly amount of new SME lending since 2011.Fresh data from the Bank on its Funding for Lending (FLS) scheme showed a £435m fall in net lending to £4.8bn between April and June, coming after the first quarter's £719m fall. The data revealed that total lending under the scheme fell by £3.9bn in the quarter, after a £2.7bn fall in the first. State-owned Lloyds Banking Group overall lending contracted the most in the second quarter, although it extended its lending to small businesses. Lloyds defended its overall reduction in total group lending as being the result of "a fall in borrowing by large and multi-national companies, the nature of which is short term and increasingly replaced with funding from the bond markets and repayments from cash reserves".It added that its shift to "becoming a UK focused retail and commercial bank" meant that it was running off certain non-core lending. "This is a strategy that over time will allow us to lend even more to our SME customers."The scheme, which was launched by the Bank and Treasury in 2012 to spur lending by offering banks cheap credit, has seen banks draw down a total of £45.7bn so far.The BBA's data showed £7.4bn of new SME borrowing was approved during the quarter, a 16% increase year-on-year and the highest quarterly amount since 2011. Net lending was up slightly overall by £100m for small and medium-sized businesses.The increase in borrowing was broadly-based across industry sectors and geographical regions, the organisation said. BBA director Irene Graham said: "BBA figures out today show that we are starting to see a pickup in borrowing by small and medium sized businesses. "It is also encouraging to see that the Funding for Lending Scheme is continuing to be used to help businesses. Companies are also increasing their cash reserves, which suggests that the sector is in a healthy position."SME deposit levels were up 9% year-on-year and now exceed borrowing by more than £43bn. Analyst Laith Khalaf at Hargreaves Lansdown said the effects of the FLS were difficult to quantify. "The Bank of England will maintain that the scheme will take some time to have full effect, and we don't know what business lending would be shrinking by if the scheme were not in place," he said. "Lending demand may also be part of the problem. Perhaps so, but meantime savers are bearing the brunt of the pain in their deposit accounts and cash ISAs."OH
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IN BRIEF: GCP Infrastructure enters into new revolving credit facility

GCP Infrastructure Investments Ltd - Jersey-based investment fund focused on infrastructure - Announces that it entered into a new revolving credit facility on Thursday. The RCF has a three-year term and has been agreed with Lloyds Bank PLC, Mizuho Bank Ltd, Allied Irish Bank and Clydesdale Bank PLC acting as lenders. GCP says it has reduced the total RCF commitments to GBP150 million from GBP190 million, in line with the company's capital policy as outlined in its 2023 annual report. In December, GCP adopted a policy realising around 15% of its portfolio, GBP150 million, to "rebalance sectors and reduce equity exposures, and to apply the funds towards a material reduction in the RCF", as well as to facilitate the return of at least GBP50 million to shareholders by the end of calendar 2024.

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(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened in the red on Tuesday, as European markets failed to find upward momentum amid muted trading in Asia, and Monday's public holiday in the US.

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16 Feb 2024 14:59

London close: Stocks rise as UK retail sales rebound

(Sharecast News) - London's stock markets saw positive gains on Friday, buoyed by encouraging UK retail sales data and favourable earnings reports from NatWest.

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15 Feb 2024 14:42

UK earnings, trading statements calendar - next 7 days

Friday 16 February 
NatWest Group PLCFull Year Results
Segro PLCFull Year Results
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Monday 19 February 
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Tuesday 20 February 
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InterContinental Hotels Group PLCFull Year Results
Petra Diamonds LtdHalf Year Results
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Wednesday 21 February 
BAE Systems PLCFull Year Results
Conduit Holdings LtdFull Year Results
Glencore PLCFull Year Results
HSBC Holdings PLCFull Year Results
Rio Tinto PLCFull Year Results
Riverstone Credit Opportunities Income PLCFull Year Results
Tate & Lyle PLCTrading Statement
Thursday 22 February 
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WPP PLCFull Year Results
  
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(Sharecast News) - Santander UK has filed a formal complaint with Britain's advertising regulator over a Nationwide campaign which it claims "discredits and denigrates" the high street banking sector.

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Lloyds to scrap mobile bank branches as moves towards online banking

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