| 1 | The Bank promised to make a loan of twenty thousand pounds to them. | |
| 2 | We simply do not know when banks will begin lending again. | |
| 3 | Interbank lending rates have come down and stabilized, but banks are not yet lending. | |
| 4 | TALF was created to support consumer, small business and commercial real estate lending. | |
| 5 | Those fixed-rate loans are backed by the government, and lenders are more willing to give them out than private loans. |