What if South Africa's unsecured-credit market enters a fresh boom-bust cycle?
A renewed South African unsecured-credit boom-bust (African Bank echo) lifts impairments at consumer lenders, denting confidence in the unsecured-lending tier.
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A renewed South African unsecured-credit boom-bust (African Bank echo) lifts impairments at consumer lenders, denting confidence in the unsecured-lending tier. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Credit spreads ▲ · Financial conditions ▲ · Recession signal ▲ · Risk appetite ▼ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.