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Jan
Credit standards tightened for loans to enterprises and households
Firms’ demand for loans continued to decline, while demand for housing loans increased
Government guarantees on loans to firms supported bank lending conditions
Credit standards – i.e. banks’ internal guidelines or loan approval criteria – tightened across all loan categories, namely loans to enterprises, loans to households for house purchase and consumer credit and other lending to households in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the January 2021 bank lending survey (BLS). The net...