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On Wednesday the Treasury announced details of Project Merlin, the deal agreed with the four largest banks (HSBC, Lloyds TSB, Barclays and RBS) to make a total of £190bn of credit available to businesses in 2011, of which £76bn is to be made available to SMEs.
So will this make an appreciable difference to the current levels of lending activity? A number of reservations have been expressed:-
Finally, it is unlikely that levels of borrowing and general economic activity will start to increase until banks become confident enough to improve the finance terms, and customers become confident enough to take on further borrowings - Project Merlin seems destined to achieve neither.
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