Michelle W Bowman: Fostering closer supervisory communication Speech by Ms Michelle W Bowman, Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors, Washington DC, 2 April 2019.
However, the results of the ad hoc survey have been weighted according to the sample shares of the individual banks, while the BLS results are unweighted owing to methodological reasons. As you can see in the chart, the survey results point to a moderate pickup in lending volumes, while lending to SMEs is even likely to accelerate considerably in the second half of 2010.