Leaders told not to ‘bash’ French banks (Financial Times)
French political leaders were on Monday warned it was “unjustified and totally unhelpful” to “bash” the banks by the head of the organisation providing billions in euros in state-backed loans to lenders.

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-11 00:11 Japan Oct outstanding bank loans +2.2 pct yr/yr (Interactive Investor)
TOKYO, Nov 11 (Reuters) – The balance of outstanding loans held by most Japanese banks rose 2.2 percent in October from a year earlier, Bank of Japan data showed on Tuesday.

Dragon fires up SMEs to take on green business loans (vnunet.com)
James Murray, BusinessGreen , Tuesday 11 November 2008 at 00:15:00 Star of Dragon’s Den joins with Carbon Trust to promote £200k interest free loans for energy efficiency investments The Carbon Trust has signed up serial entrepreneur Theo Paphitis to promote the adoption of interest free low carbon loans amongst small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs)….

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3. Banks should ‘tap into EU funds’ (BBC News)
4. Lowest number of loans in years (Financial Times)
5. UK confident Saudis will help IMF (Financial Times)