Bank rates cannot easily be cut to below zero.

银行利率不会轻易降低到负数。

In fact, these protective protocols are so stringent, one prominent stool bank's acceptance rate is less than 3%.

这些保护性措施太过严苛，以至于一家最大的粪便银行接受率只有不到 3%。

Although informal lenders eventually match banks' interest rates, this takes time.

尽管非正式贷款机构最终会与银行的利率持平，但这需要时间。

A new bank rate analysis says Americans wanting to buy a medium-priced home need to make at least $110000 a year.

一项新的银行利率分析表明，想购买一个中等价位房屋的美国人每年至少需要挣11万美元。

Under the new law, banks will be prevented from charging more than 4 percentage points above the central bank's base rate.

在该法案框架下，各商业银行禁止收取高于肯尼亚中央银行基准利率的利率，即4%。

US and British regulators settled charges the firm sought to manipulating a key interest rate banks choose to borrow from one another.

美国和英国的监管机构就该行试图操纵银行间拆借利率达成和解。

During the crisis the spread between the central bank's policy rate and the interest rates commercial banks charged their customers for loans jumped.

在这次金融危机中，央行的政策利率与商业银行向客户收取的贷款利率差额大幅上升。

Last week, the Bank of England made its 11th consecutive increase to interest rates, meaning that the bank rate in the UK is now 4.25 per cent, the highest level in 14 years.

上周，英国央行连续第 11 次加息，这意味着英国的银行利率目前为 4.25%，为 14 年来的最高水平。