The UK’s monetary indicators continue to paint a mixed picture, with respectable growth in broad money contrasting with further falls in bank lending, particularly to firms as a whole. However, a tentative pick-up in lending to SMEs suggests that April’s extension of the Bank of England’s Funding for Lending Scheme (FLS) might be starting to have a beneficial impact.
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