As Shahien Nasiripour and Tom Braithwaite recount in the Financial Times, this has created some bizarre political marriages, such as that between Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter and Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown, who are pushing for a bill that imposes rules so
stringent on the big banks it would likely force them to break themselves up.
AdelaideBank, a division of Bendigo and Adelaide
Bank, will today (Wed) announce stricter controls
on apartment lending that include
bigger sizes, better design, identifiable cash flows for investor / lands and more
stringent calculations of a borrowers» capacity to repay.