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Project Merlin has not got credit flowing again

The major UK banks have more or less met the Project Merlin lending targets set by the Government. But these targets were fairly meaningless in the first place and there are plenty of reasons to expect credit growth to remain a constraint on the economic recovery for a while yet.

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