As usual, there is a large margin of uncertainty attached to that forecast, but the adjustments to monetary policy  1  BIS Review 44/2000  which have been made over the past six months give us more confidence that inflation should be contained. I would now like to move away from the short term and turn to the medium term.
One of the reasons why the banking relationship is so important to small business finance is that banks can efficiently gain valuable information on a small business over the course of their relationship, and then use this information to help make pricing and credit decisions.