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Risk managers in Australia's banking sector are on a mission to convince everyone else in the business lines to take data use and risk management more seriously. read more

Westpac's newly appointed financial crime committee has commissioned IBM subsidiary Promontory to review the bank's failed financial crime program as it scrambles for cover in the wake of Austrac's re.. read more

Australia's largest retail banks are spending tens of millions of dollars on Google Adwords each year to attract new customers, and to retain existing clients, according to a new study tracking digita.. read more

APRA has proposed further changes to its own prudential standard on leverage ratio requirements for Australia's authorised deposit-taking institutions. read more

The ACCC has authorised changes to the Australian Banking Association's code of practice to prescribe criteria for basic bank accounts and, separately, not to impose default interest on farmers affect.. read more

The discontinuation of BBSW was a topic of major concern on day two of the Australian Securitisation Forum conference, underlined by the release of an ASF report of a membership survey and the marketi.. read more

One big theme of the Australian Securitisation Forum's annual conference in Sydney is that technology has started to open securitisation funding for smaller non-bank lenders. read more

NAB's annual review contains some interesting asides on conduct issues and the performance of its QuickBiz and UBank operations. read more

Non-bank, non-ADI lender Liberty Financial has continued to take advantage of the pressures on its listed banking rivals, posting a pre-tax profit of A$94.1 million. read more

Funding for growth in a post-Hayne world has become a lot easier for several of Australia's largest mutuals, with CUA now ready to issue a newly legislated mutual capital instrument. read more