Commonwealth Bank and ANZ are likely to avoid large payouts on a long-running legal dispute concerning home loan disclosures in New Zealand, after unusual intervention by the country’s conservative government.
New Zealand’s Luxon government has proposed to retrospectively change laws that could lead to the collapse of long-running legal action against the two banks which lawyers estimate could force them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to 170,000 customers.
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