The Ernst & Young Item club (Independent Treasury Economic Model) is forecasting that business lending in the UK (HERE) will fall in 2017 and 2018 taking the total stock of business loans to a level last seen in 2005.
Apparently, banks are willing to lend but customers are adopting a wait-and-see attitude until the meaning of Brexit is clearer. Mortgage lending is forecast to rise albeit at a lower rate than before the referendum result was announced.
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