Why are Aussie banks getting smashed?

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Karen Moley puts lippy on the banking pig today:

…there’s no doubt that the Hayne royal commission – which has forced the banks to crack down on some of their lax lending standards and to forsake some of the suspect fees they’ve been happily pocketing for years – has played some role in this sell-off of the local players.

But the woeful performance of European bank stocks suggest that not all the blame can be sheeted home to the Royal Commissioner, Kenneth Hayne.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.