Banks face fear of global investors

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From Chanticleer trailing bank executives in Hong Kong:

The message from the bank executives was clear: housing isn’t a disaster area, and we are certainly open for business.

…macro-prudential measures introduced three or four years ago have flowed through the industry – and trimmed 10 per cent to 15 per cent off the maximum a borrower can access…Income and expense checks required are much more onerous.

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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.