| Description | Includes: Government stock issues; appointments; speeches; European Settlement Office; the release of the new Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) parity grid; response to Senator John Kerry's report on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) SA; provisional liquidators appointed in the winding-up petition of Mount Banking Corporation Limited; changes in the Clearing Centre House Automated Payments System (CHAPS) to a Real Time Gross Settlement system; analysis of bank lending to United Kingdom residents; the Bank of England response to Lord Justice Bingham's BCCI report. |