the maximum amount of money a bank can lend to a single person or business
The traditional individual lending limit of three to three and a half times an individual'sincome has been abandoned.
Examples of 'lending limit' in a sentence
lending limit
Just before they left, they promised to increase the company's lending limit by 500,000.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Regulators like the simplicity of a leverage ratio because it imposes a straightforward lending limit that cannot be artificially gamed by sophisticated banking models.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Brokerages and state-owned entities were instructed to pump more than $20 billion into the market and lending limits were dropped.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
That said, some investors looking to expand their large portfolios are being constrained by lenders' aggregate lending limits.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The lending limits could then become a tool - albeit a very clumsy one - to manage house prices.