Be warned, according to The Times, bankers are drawing up secret black lists to ban businesses from overnight borrowing.
Seemingly hundreds of clients have been included on the lists, which include international trading and commodities companies that supply the small-to-medium-sized business sector.
Were the banks still private companies, this would be a matter between them and their borrowers. However, now that the government has effective control over a number of them, this is now a matter that directly affects government policy and credibility wrt its attempts to limit the impact of the recession.
The banks will find that, unless they modify their behaviour, Brown and Darling will become very hands on "directors".
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