Bearing all of this in mind, I believe there is a certain risk in the fact that not enough consideration is being given to the time when this period of market calm comes to an end. On balance, however, I would say that the international financial system is now in a robust state.
First, while banks do not report loans to small businesses separately, they do report information on business loans less than $ million and farm loans less than $ The history of this data can be used as a proxy for small business lending.