Sony Bank will reduce their variable home loan interest rates to 0.499% from April 2016. With the exception of banks offering campaign discounts, this makes Sony the first bank to reduce rates below the 0.5% range. After the Bank of Japan introduced negative interest rates in February, retail banks have been lowering interest rates offered to consumers. Until recently, banks were only reducing interest rates on fixed-rate loans, but it is now spreading to variable rate plans as well.
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