Most of the retail demand is fuelled by easy access to credit through "margin lending" provided by small brokers.

小型证券公司面向散户投资者轻易提供的“孖展贷款（margin lending）”，对散户市场的需求起到了火上浇油的作用。

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The young broker said this 90 per cent margin lending - nearly five times the maximum allowed in the US - would be provided by simply showing a proof of identification and address.

该公司一名年轻的经纪商表示，只需提供身份和地址证明，就能得到这种高达90%的“孖展成数”，它比美国允许的最高限额高出近五倍。

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This is the clearest statement yet about what CSF is doing - buying shares directly using PBoC money, a big departure from its traditional role of lending to brokerages to support margin lending.

这是迄今关于中国证券金融公司行动的最明确表述：直接使用央行资金购买股票，严重偏离了其向券商放贷以支持保证金贷款的传统角色。

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Now that might, in theory reduce mortgage rates, but the scope for making any margin on lending has been reduced again.

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The 1970s brought insurance, corporate finance and securities margin-lending within its remit.

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Either low interest rates have not got through to households or businesses because the banks need to make a higher margin on lending now to rebuild their balance sheets - or companies have plenty of money to invest, but they're too nervous about the future to do it.

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