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  "id": 12198025,
  "title": "Small banks make loans expensive on costly funds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/small-banks-make-loans-expensive-on-costly-funds",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-10-05T16:15:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Daily Africa",
    "slug": "business-daily-africa",
    "url": "https://www.businessdailyafrica.com/bd/corporate/companies/small-banks-make-loans-expensive-on-costly-funds-5620716"
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  "summary": "Fourteen of the 38 commercial banks, mostly smaller lenders, raised their average lending rates...",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}