Yes, credit easing will certainly help provide banks with the ability to lend.

Like the discount market this provides individual banks with an outlet for surplus funds and a source of borrowing when their reserves are low.

Those so-called correspondent accounts provide tiny foreign banks that are subject to little government regulation with access to the American financial system.

"We will provide all the general data banks."

Car dealerships provide these loans to consumers as well as most banks or credit unions.

That could provide banks in particular with a crucial advantage.

Notes earn no income whereas advances provide most banks with the bulk of their gross incomes.

Apart from refinancing, it also provides banks with services such as transfer of funds, bank notes and coins or foreign currency.

This was a move to provide banks with more money to lend.

Kenton-on-Sea also provides several banks and associated commercial activities.