Bernard Hickey
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 12 Jul
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very online banking operations here that they have in other countries.
And there's a lot of grumpiness about that, that our big four banks have not allowed or encouraged the new players to come in, the Revolutes and those other big banks now, for example, in Denmark.
nearly half the market is taken by e-banks.
Here, it's more like 90% with the big four.
And that's because over there, there's been various regulatory and structural encouragement for these e-banks to come in.
We don't have that here yet.
Yeah, whenever I think hawkish and dovish, I go straight to the picture of the actual bird.
I think of a hawk with the curved beak and the grumpy look.
And, you know, they are predators.
They are grumpy.
They pounce on things and do mean things.
So I think hawk means, gee, they're not very nice to us.
They probably want to put up our interest rates.
Well, they tend to be pessimistic about inflation, worried about inflation, always thinking, right, I'm going to pounce here with higher interest rates to stop that inflation coming through.
There's a lot of flesh being torn off things.
And then the dove is more sort of a cuckoo, you know, trot, trot, trot.
Often you think of a white dove, you know, wouldn't scare a cat.
You know, something you'd love to throw up in a wedding ceremony.
You know, it's not going to suddenly rip your ear off.
And a dove is more relaxed, more likely to leave interest rates low.
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