A real risk was emerging that the difficulties of raising funds in the international markets would result in a  BIS central bankers’ speeches  3  contraction of lending, aggravating the cyclical downturn and inevitably triggering feed-back effects on the banks’ balance sheets. Until November Italian banks’ lending to the non-financial private sector continued to expand, although at diminishing rates.
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