| Description | Includes: speeches; stock issues and redemption; banking supervision - consultative papers; analysis of bank lending to United Kingdom residents; appointments; off-balance sheet business of international banks; Baker initiative (in 1985, James Baker, the United States Treasury Secretary, proposed that growth oriented reforms should be adopted, supported by an increase in lending from both official institutions and banks, to address the debt crisis. The hope was that developing countries would, over time, grow out of their debt burden); inauguration of the central gilts office service. |