Inquiry good, but net must be cast wider
“NZMEA Chief Executive John Walley says, “Proper debate on bank margins will be helpful because, as Alan Bollard has already noted, short term margins are too high and generally margins have increased since the financial crisis. However, the inquiry needs to go further than this and look at why New Zealand’s interest rates are consistently higher than the rates of many of our competitors and how this is affecting our economic performance.”