In today’s Statement, the Bank of England’s Financial Policy Committee (FPC) fired a warning shot to banks over consumer credit, suggesting that banks would need to increase the amount of capital they hold by £10bn in order to protect against losses. But it stopped short of attempting to rein in lending.
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