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The Bank Return - Figures for cob 28 July 2010
Each week the Bank of England publishes a summary balance sheet showing its main assets and liabilities - the Bank Return.

Liquidity-saving mechanisms and bank behaviour
Working Paper 400 by Marco Galbiati and Kimmo Soramaki.

Liquidity costs and tiering in large-value payment systems
Working Paper 399 by Mark Adams, Marco Galbiati and Simone Giansante.

The sterling unsecured loan market during 2006-08: insights from network theory
Working Paper 398 by Anne Wetherilt, Peter Zimmerman and Kimmo Soramaki.

Lending to Individuals - June 2010
Monthly release of growth rates, amounts outstanding and changes in total lending to individuals, broken down into lending secured on dwellings and consumer credit.

Monetary and Financial Statistics - July 2010
Informally known as Bankstats. It consists of: money and lending; monetary financial institutions' balance sheets; further analyses of deposits and lending; external business of banks operating in the UK, public sector debt and the money markets (including gilt repo and stock lending); sterling commercial paper, other debt securities, capital issues; financial derivatives, interest and exchange rates and occasional background articles.

Sectoral Breakdown of Aggregate M4 and M4 Lending - June 2010
Monthly release of growth rates of and changes in M4 and M4 lending for the household sector, private non-financial corporations, and other financial corporations, together with the second release of growth rates of and changes in aggregate M4 and M4 lending.

Analysis of Monetary Financial Institutions' Deposits from and Lending to UK Residents - June 2010
Industrial analysis of deposits with, and borrowing from, monetary financial institutions in the UK by UK residents other than monetary financial institutions. The release contains growth rates, amounts outstanding and changes in deposits and borrowing, both in sterling and foreign currency.

Treasury Committee Hearing on Monetary Policy and Financial Stability
Opening Statement by the Governor, Mervyn King.

Short Annual Reports from Paul Fisher and David Miles
Ahead of Treasury Committee Hearing.