Brief: NAB ticks Sedgwick box 01 August 2017 3:59PM Hundreds of retail branch managers, assistant branch managers and sales team leaders in consumer call centres at NAB will move off their existing incentive plan in October. read more
Foreign News: UnionPay losing ground to non-bank payments, US credit card losses up, HSBC big buy ba 01 August 2017 3:44PM UnionPay, China's largest card-payment network operator, is struggling to stay relevant in an increasingly cashless economy. read more
Briefs: Gateway follows the trend, Fitch affirms Macquarie ratings 31 July 2017 4:13PM Gateway Credit Union will join the fray and seek member approval to trade as Gateway Bank. read more
Foreign News: LIBOR to linger in UK 31 July 2017 4:12PM The LIBOR interest rate benchmark will remain in use until at least the end of 2021, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority now says. read more
ADVERT: Driving Innovation in Banking: Greater Bank's Incubation Accelerator 31 July 2017 4:11PM Despite being a smaller player in the Australian banking sector, Greater Bank has successfully delivered innovations and technologies that rival their Big 4 competition.Their success in corporate in.. read more
Macquarie's 1Q 2017 results in line, ahead of AGM 28 July 2017 4:19PM The performance from Macquarie Group's businesses in the first quarter of operations has been broadly in line with expectations. read more
Briefs: Macquarie's REM report draws shareholders' ire, first Kiwi green bond, NZ P2P lender Harmon 28 July 2017 4:17PM It wasn't all smooth sailing at the Macquarie Group AGM. The AFR reports that there was a 15 per cent cast against the executive team's remuneration. read more
Foreign news: China's largest P2P lender to wind down 28 July 2017 4:16PM China's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform — Hongling Capital — plans to get out of the online lending business within three years, citing a poor track record of people repaying loans. read more
MyState admits over-charging, refunds $230,000 27 July 2017 4:28PM Tasmania's largest financial institution, MyState Bank Limited, has refunded more than A$230,000 in over-charged interest and fees to over 1,000 customers with mortgage offset accounts. read more
APRA to allow mutuals to issue Tier 1 capital 27 July 2017 4:27PM The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority yesterday released a discussion paper outlining how mutually owned authorised deposit-taking institutions could directly issue Common Equity Tier 1 capit.. read more