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Banks Quick On The Downtake As Battle For Borrowers Grows

Saturday February 20, 1999
The banks' interest margin is shrinking as competition intensifies in lending to small business and remains as tough as ever in lending to home buyers. That's the purport of the latest dispatch from the banking battlefield, included in the Reserve Bank's quarterly article on the state of the econ