LONDON: Britain's Treasury chief has said banks must increase lending to businesses rather than boosting bonuses and dividends now that they have weathered the worst of the credit crisis.
George Osborne told the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that banks "have an economic obligation to assist" small and medium-sized businesses.
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