Lending to business suffers biggest fall since 2011, Bank of England data shows

Lending to businesses has suffered its biggest drop since April 2011, raising concerns about the strength of the economy and the impact of schemes intended to increase banks' appetite to lend.

Major borrowers to reduce bank deposits: Fed survey

(Reuters) - Wall Street dealers expect hedge funds, insurance companies and other borrowers to pull some cash from commercial banks when a financial crisis-era deposit insurance program expires at the end of the year, the Federal Reserve said on Thursday.