The Commission’s annual assessment of country specific recommended reforms finds only limited progress.1 The progress made is evaluated using five categories: “no progress”, “limited progress”, “some progress”, “substantial progress” and “full implementation”. “No progress” means that the Member State concerned did not even “credibly announce” measures that would aim to address the policy recommendation.
These entities increased their holdings of commercial and industrial loans (by $ billion), real estate loans (by $ billion), and consumer loans (by $ billion). On net, bank holding companies and banks in this size class increased their lending by about $ billion – far less than the reductions in lending at banks in the larger-size groups.