Australia - Will Australia’s bank tighten lending standards?

Australian banks have passed through the RBA’s recent cuts to some but not all of their lending rates and have tightened lending standards a bit. With banks now in better shape than during the global financial crisis, we think that lending standards won’t be tightened as much as they were during the GFC.

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