It's been the doing of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority — one of the Reserve Bank's sister organisations.
On Tuesday this week, a few hours before Governor Lowe delivered his speech, it wrote to the institutions again, In recent months most new mortgage rates have been below 4.5 per cent, with some high-quality borrowers able to get rates as low as 3.6 per cent.
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