Shareholders will have to be patient for longer-term payoffs, but this forward-thinking, long-term approach will stand bank customers, banks, shareholders, the financial system and Aotearoa in the best position. 7 The Reserve Bank has released new Bank Customer Lending metrics which provide more timely  measures of the changes in lending to bank customers since the onset of COVID-19. Find out more at: https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/statistics/c65-bank-customer-lending-flows.
8  Figure C: Bank customer lending flows  $ 14  $ 14  Interest only Mortgage deferral  12  10  10  8  8  6  6  4  4  2  2  0  0  27-Mar 03-Apr 10-Apr 17-Apr 24-Apr 01-May 08-May 15-May 22-May 29-May 05-Jun 12-Jun 19-Jun 26-Jun 03-Jul 10-Jul 17-Jul 24-Jul  12  Source: RBNZ Bank Customer Lending flows.