Cash Converters faces new Queensland class action 31 July 2015 4:04PM The behaviour of payday lenders continues to come under fire, with the launch yesterday of another class action against Australia's biggest payday lender, the ASX-listed Cash Converters. read more
ASIC aims to move into new technologies 31 July 2015 4:03PM Businesses have seen the potential in fintech for new ways of creating and sharing value with technologically savvy investors and consumers, and this calls for a "pro-active and forward-looking regula.. read more
ANZ to boost super and rebalance gender inequality 30 July 2015 4:30PM ANZ yesterday announced new measures that it claimed would help address the "structural bias" and subsequent financial disadvantage the bank's female staff face in the workplace and retirement. read more
Global 'green bonds' market touching US$600bn 30 July 2015 4:23PM The latest report on the so-called green bond market, prepared by the Climate Bonds Initiative with the backing of HSBC, has been in soft release over the last couple of weeks, with the report launche.. read more
Columbus and Pioneer case wraps up 27 July 2015 4:11PM The three-day Federal Court hearing of claims and cross-claims between mortgage originator and manager Pioneer Mortgage Services and Columbus Capital, a non-bank financial services player, concluded o.. read more
Pioneer and Columbus arguments continue 24 July 2015 4:17PM The second day of what both parties - Pioneer Mortgages Services and Columbus Capital - told Justice Jayne Jagot of the Federal Court would be a three day legal action for the right to manage 500 mort.. read more
Pioneer Mortgages and Columbus Capital battle over fees, fraud in Fed Court 23 July 2015 4:11PM The ongoing dispute between non-bank financial institutions Pioneer Mortgage Services and Columbus Capital has begun in earnest in the Federal Court, with a full day's evidence and argument yesterday,.. read more
Austrac calls Tabcorp on money laundering 23 July 2015 4:06PM Austrac has filed papers in the Federal Court against three Tabcorp group companies for what it has called "extensive, significant and systemic non-compliance" with Australia's anti-money laundering a.. read more
Another side to the home ownership debate 17 July 2015 4:13PM A review of many of the 40-plus submissions to the Inquiry into Home Ownership being run by the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics has revealed an inventive streak among some of.. read more
Alleged National Credit Code breach halts repossession 17 July 2015 4:11PM Two borrowers have been successful in convincing the WA Supreme Court of Appeal to suspend enforcement of a judgment against them that ordered them to hand over their home due to loans in arrears. read more