The bank is also preparing loans supporting environmental protection.

He has said that banks must prepare for the possible break-up of the eurozone.

The bank is preparing to leave its current location at 222 Broadway in lower Manhattan early next year.

But the bank is preparing to finance still more of these losers on a gargantuan scale.

Investors were more focused on signals that the bank might be preparing to ease its stance later.

But several dealers said that the central bank was almost certainly preparing to take action if the rise continued.

Several banks are preparing to explain how they lent money on collateral that did not exist.

The Governor spoke as banks prepare for their "bonus season" which will see bosses and star traders take home millions of pounds each.

In 1973 Time Magazine reported that the bank was "preparing to let archaeologists resume their digging."

The bank prepared a three-page list to help parents get organized.