Briefs: NAB prepares MLC for sale, BEN plays safe with regtech supplier, RBNZ mulls on digital curre 20 June 2018 4:38PM National Australia Bank has hired Macquarie Capital and Morgan Stanley to help prepare its MLC wealth management division for sale. read more
Foreign News: Visa explains its European glitch 20 June 2018 4:37PM Visa's ten-hour outage across Europe at the start of this month caused more than five million transactions to fail. read more
Whie label loans pop for AFG 19 June 2018 4:47PM Demand is stirring for Australian Finance Group's white label home loan, the broking group's own "Competition Index", released yesterday, shows. read more
Briefs: Kiwi public transport payment shake-up, an expensive doctor's appointment, Wood backtracks o 19 June 2018 4:40PM The proposed timetable for a national program in New Zealand to roll out a universal non-cash payment method for public transport has been set. read more
Foreign News: Virgin Money agrees to CYBG bid, crypto a threat to the internet and the world, debit 19 June 2018 4:31PM NAB spin-off Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank has been successful in getting Virgin Money to accept a £1.7 billion takeover deal. read more
Westpac cops ASIC serve on advice 18 June 2018 3:27PM Westpac will defend civil penalty proceeding bought by ASIC over allegations of poor financial advice by a single employee in Perth. read more
Brief: Afterpay and ApplePay on the disrupters list 18 June 2018 3:25PM Afterpay and ApplePay are among the top ten brands Australian consumers consider to be "the most disruptive". read more
High APAC household debt dragging on structured finance deals 15 June 2018 4:46PM Household debt levels in Australia, New Zealand and Korea are among the highest globally when measured as a proportion of GDP, opening up a range of risks should a correction in home prices or an incr.. read more
Briefs: AFG chairman's shareholding cut by Family Court, Aussie's Porges wrangling data wranglers, N 15 June 2018 4:44PM The chairman of listed loan broker AFG has seen his shareholding halved under orders from the Family Court. read more
Foreign News: Fed caps big banks' credit exposure 15 June 2018 4:43PM The US Federal Reserve has approved new caps on the credit exposures of big banks, in the hope of limiting the possibility that the failure of one of them may drag down the rest. read more