Appetite for loans picks up again, say major banks

The amount of new borrowing through personal loans has outstripped repayments every month this year, figures from UK banks have indicated.

Kuwait MPs target financial help for citizens

KUWAIT (Reuters) - A parliamentary committee in Kuwait proposed on Sunday that the government pay a portion of the interest on citizens' personal loans and give a 1,000 Kuwaiti dinar ($3,500) gift to each Kuwaiti without such debts, state news agency KUNA reported.