Financial statistics have greatly improved since the Radcliffe Report of 1959. With the banks and the discount houses, the improvement has been mainly in the quality of the information and in the provision of consistent figures at common quarterly dates, where previously there had been differing dates and definitions. With the other financial institutions which, for brevity, are being called 'the financial institutions' in this article it has been rather more a matter of compiling completely new statistics, and it is only since the end of 1962 that regular series have become available for all the various groups.
Published on
01 June 1965
The financial institutions