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Via Banking Day:

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has cautioned lenders not to make too many assumptions about how quickly consumers’ income will recover post-pandemic when making loan application assessments.

ASIC has published a letter it sent to the Australian Banking Association in response to a series of questions from the ABA about the regulatory approach to lending during the COVID-19 crisis.

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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.