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Via the AFR comes the bank’s worst nightmare, jingle mail:

In moves set to further shift the lending dynamic from “buyer beware” to “seller beware”, Maurice Blackburn is preparing to sue the banks over interest-only lending, mortgage fraud and how household expenses were calculated prior to approving loans.

…”The banks would want to make sure no one ends up proving that they have been irresponsibly lending… because that opens up a can of worms,” said Omkar Joshi, a portfolio manager at Regal Funds Management.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.