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Combatting financial crime: 4 ways to see it at WestpacAustralia's big four banks have a unique position in the fight against financial crime - an opportunity to help define strategy and objectives.. read more

Updated figures from Thomson Reuters on syndicated loans for the first quarter, and into the current period, for the Australian market show that the leading mandated arranger is ANZ. read more

Yesterday's report on speech by APRA chair Wayne Byres at a COBA forum wrongly cited a "hypothetical borrower survey" where APRA "asked a number of the larger housing lenders (including a few mutuals).. read more

Scottish Pacific said it was now offering selective invoice finance - meaning businesses can literally select which invoices to sell in order to raise short-term funding. read more

HSBC's majority owned subsidiary, Hang Seng Bank, will sell a 4.99 per cent stake in China's Industrial Bank for US$2.7 billion to shore up its capital position and fund expansion. read more

Good Shepherd Microfinance has welcomed the Australian Government's $33.3 million investment in safe and affordable financial services. read more

American Express has raised its quarterly dividend to US29 cents per share from US26 cents, and announced it will buy back 150 million of its shares. read more

National Australia Bank has completed the institutional component of its 'two for 25' entitlement offer of new ordinary shares. read more

US bank Wells Fargo plans to add as many as 140 people to its Asian banking operations over the next 12 months, reports Bloomberg. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is passing on 20 basis points of the latest 25 bps reduction in the cash rate but its margin lending business, Leveraged Equities, is passing on 25 bps. read more