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The Bank of France's lending to the banking sector was the highest on record in December, topping the 215.3 billion euros in December 2008 at the height of the 2008-2009 financial crisis, figures from Thomson Reuters Datastream showed.
The European Central Bank injected 489 billion euros of three-year liquidity into the banking system in December in order to fend off a credit crunch and keep loans flowing to the euro zone economy.