Business Lending Is Still Good Business
Inflation is at a historic high, the Federal Reserve has raised its benchmark interest rate 2.5 percent in six months and talk of recession is in the air. Yet businesses’ appetite for debt didn’t dim in Q2.
Conditions Point to Loan Growth
More than a year after the start of the pandemic saw banks and their customers confronting the unknowns of a public health crisis and a recession, the latest quarterly earnings results for Massachusetts-based banks continue to point to an improving outlook.
