The Reserve Bank has eased the dividend restrictions it placed on retail banks at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, now allowing them to pay up to half their earnings back to shareholders.
In April 2020 the central bank banned bankers from paying any dividends, and extended the restriction in
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