ANZ BANK has lifted interest rates for its variable home loan customers and small business borrowers despite the central bank leaving the cash rate on hold. ANZ announced it was increasing variable rate mortgages and small business loans by 0.06 per cent.
The move comes despite the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) opting on Tuesday to leave the cash rate on hold at 4.25 per cent. ANZ said in a statement released late today that it needed to lift it lending rates because of rising wholesale funding and deposit costs.
"The funding environment changed quite dramatically in late 2011 as a result of the economic and financial crisis in Europe," the head of ANZ's Australian operations Philip Chronican said. "This has seen wholesale funding costs rise and competition increase dramatically among banks for deposits," Mr Chronican said. "We accept our response to the new funding environment is difficult for some of our customers - even though deposit customers have benefited from better rates. "Given this and the volatility we have seen in wholesale funding markets, we wanted to ensure these costs were sustained before we acted to pass them on."
As I explained in this column earlier in the week:
A final curveball is what the banks do with their margins. We have ANZ’s decision on Friday this week.
If I was the CEO of a major bank I would definitely bump up lending rates by a good 5.0 to 7.5 basis points.
Why? First, because you will boost your net interest margins in an environment in which profits are going to be hard to come by due to structurally low credit growth – funding costs have been falling since January.
A second reason to widen margins is to amplify pressure on the RBA to neutralise that change in lending rates in May.
All else being equal banks do better in low interest rate climates. Asset prices rise, credit growth accelerates and impairments decline.
So the banks will want to see the RBA cutting in May and bumping up margins in April will increase the probability of that happening. Borrowers are still better off because the RBA ordinarily moves in 25 basis point increments.
A final reason to expand margins is simply because, as an oligopolist, you can!
From a margin extraction point of view the banks need to break the back of the purported link between the RBA’s target cash rate and actual, economy-wide lending rates.
While the link will always exist in practice (ie, notwithstanding what people may want you to believe), the banks should rationally want to improve their ability to freely profit maximize without annoying politicians and commentators interfering with their decision-making processes, as has been the case of late.
ANZ has lifted interest rates for its variable home loan customers and small business borrowers with other major lenders now expected to follow its lead
ANZ BANK has lifted interest rates for its variable home loan customers and small business borrowers despite the central bank leaving the cash rate on hold. ANZ announced it was increasing variable rate mortgages and small business loans by 0.06 per cent.
Wu say this make $300,000 loan rise by less than cup of coffe / week and you say thiss garantee to kill house? Wu say you the big laugh
It'll put a big downer on sentiment. It'll take at least 5 percent off what current buyers are willing to pay.
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ANZ BANK has lifted interest rates for its variable home loan customers and small business borrowers despite the central bank leaving the cash rate on hold. ANZ announced it was increasing variable rate mortgages and small business loans by 0.06 per cent.
The move comes despite the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) opting on Tuesday to leave the cash rate on hold at 4.25 per cent. ANZ said in a statement released late today that it needed to lift it lending rates because of rising wholesale funding and deposit costs.
"The funding environment changed quite dramatically in late 2011 as a result of the economic and financial crisis in Europe," the head of ANZ's Australian operations Philip Chronican said. "This has seen wholesale funding costs rise and competition increase dramatically among banks for deposits," Mr Chronican said. "We accept our response to the new funding environment is difficult for some of our customers - even though deposit customers have benefited from better rates. "Given this and the volatility we have seen in wholesale funding markets, we wanted to ensure these costs were sustained before we acted to pass them on."
If banks are truly determined to ignore the RBA from now on and act on their own accord, then the effectiveness of monetary policy is diminished.
I feel that the RBA is either:
1. Becoming too divorced from the economic reality confronting Australia Or 2. Is simply becoming powerless in the face of extreme economic and national mismanagement by the government.
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