The conventional wisdom is that the collapse in bond yields since the launch of QQE is undermining bank profits. In reality, though they reached a fresh high last year. Unfortunately this is bad news for the Bank of Japan, as the resilience of bank profits reflects the fact that they haven’t lowered lending rates much.
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