Previous research on relationship lending has paid very little attention to the role of trust. Trust might be ex … hypothesis. The results show that trust has a minor role in reducing the request of collateral. …

finance. Trust is an important part of relationship banking. However, the term trust is nebulous,and relationship banking … means different things to different banksand different borrowers. How trust enablesthe credit market for SMEs through … relationship banking is largely unexplored. Using a unique primary dataset of SMEsin the UK, we construct a measure of trust …