Briefs: Custom Fleet to be sold to Canada's Elemental, ex-BOQ CIO joins GE 23 June 2015 3:28PM GE Capital's Australian fleet leasing and management business Custom Fleet will be sold to Canada's Elemental Financial Corp, according to a report. read more
Briefs: Push for GST on financial services, Call for credit card inquiry, New Payments Council chair 22 June 2015 3:30PM South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill has raised the prospect of extending the goods and services tax to financial services. read more
Foreign news: Coconut Bank for sale, calls to accept ring-fencing rules, GABV expands membership 22 June 2015 3:28PM <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:78; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-sign.. read more
Briefs: MasterCard outed as interchange campaign backer, Fitch says Australian mortgage arrears stab 19 June 2015 5:00PM MasterCard has confirmed it is a backer of a US organisation campaigning against a proposal to reduce card interchange fees outlined in a Reserve Bank review of payment card regulation. read more
Foreign News: RBS payment failure could last days, China's Bocom sets template for reform, India's n 19 June 2015 4:59PM Royal Bank of Scotland customers will have to wait until end of the week for some payments to enter their accounts. read more
Briefs: Extra effort on home loans, FX pricing motivates business, Macquarie Investment Management t 18 June 2015 4:01PM Three in four Australian mortgage holders (77 per cent) intend to make extra repayments on their home loan, rather than spending the cash saved by falling interest rates. read more
Foreign news: bid to buy NCR Corp, interest in bailed-out British lenders, Bank of China to set gold 18 June 2015 3:59PM Blackstone Group and Carlyle Group, the world's two largest private equity firms, are making a joint bid for US cash register and ATM maker NCR Corp in a leveraged buyout. read more
Briefs: ANZ and FSU resume talks, ANZ not keen on Broken Hill, Buffett interested in local bank inve 17 June 2015 3:27PM The Finance Sector Union said ANZ agreed to recommence negotiations for a new enterprise agreement. read more
Foreign news: Japan Post and its banking and insurance arms to list, Mitsubishi Bank increases stake 17 June 2015 3:26PM Japan Post Holdings and its banking and insurance arms will file for listings on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the Japan Times reports. read more
Briefs: NZ joins AIIB; Price to head Smith's office; BNZ cuts rate more than OCR; and more 16 June 2015 3:21PM New Zealand Prime Minister John Key announced New Zealand would invest NZ$125 million in capital over five years in China's Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, saying he was satisfied it had good go.. read more