Second, it established a new arrangement for loans of 500 billion yen for small-lot investments and loans (1 million yen or more but less than 10 million yen). Third, the Bank raised the ceiling for the outstanding balance of loans under the existing arrangement from 3 trillion yen to 3.5 trillion yen.
And fourth, with a view to support financial institutions’ efforts also from the side of foreign currency funds provisioning, the Bank established a new arrangement for providing loans in U.S. dollars to the equivalent of 1 trillion yen, using the U.S. dollar reserves held by the Bank.