Monthly Archives: December 2011

Down and up in the markets

Yesterday we discovered that 192 banks are using facilities from the European Central Bank. More and more of the business that used to go through the inter-bank market now goes through the Central bank of the system. Commercial banks do not trust each other enough to lend and borrow between themselves on a big enough [...]

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