The country’s largest banks are quietly making significant cuts in the interest rates they pay on term deposits, ahead of the Reserve Bank, stepping back from an intense competition for funds that has weighed on their profit margins but benefited savers.

Commonwealth Bank cut the rate on almost all its term deposits by up to 50 basis points last week. National Australia Bank and ANZ followed on Monday, the latter making deeper reductions of up to 80 basis points.

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