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by gruez 1043 days ago
>Unsurprisingly, highly regulated sectors like banking where entering is extremely hard display cartel like behaviors. There is no incentive coming from the competition so why would anyone lower the net interest margin. In this context, I think a windfall tax somehow makes sense. Then

I'm not sure what the banking market is like in Italy, but in the US it's trivially easy to find banks that pay close to or above fed daily funds rates[1]. Sure, your average main st or wall st bank might still be paying 0.1% interest, but there isn't exactly lack of competition either.

[1] first result on google: https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/best-high-yield-int...

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> I'm not sure what the banking market is like in Italy

Significantly less competitive than in the USA.