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Australia - Higher capital weights won’t stymie credit growth

New Zealand’s experience suggests that the planned increase in risk-weightings for investor housing loans in Australia won’t act as a big deterrent to bank lending. If investor loan growth started to run hot, the banking regulator would have to respond with direct caps on lending growth or LTV ratios.

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