No slowing of pace for Xero

Cloud based accounting software provider Xero has signed up three more Australian financial players, albeit small regional operators. read more

Banking consumers go on strike after fraud

A global fraud study of more than 6,000 consumers across 20 countries, including Australia, has shown that, in contrast with the rest of Asia-Pacific, consumer behaviour in Australia and New Zealand t.. read more

Banks' analytics key to super fund innovation

Banks will become product innovators, capable of wresting large scale market share from incumbent super fund managers thanks to their existing relationships and access to financial data on millions of.. read more

COBA rails against multi-brand 'confusion'

The Customer Owned Banking Association has again called for a crackdown on what it calls "misleading and confusing banking information given to consumers", this time in its submission to the Competiti.. read more

Fitch to monitor LMI claims coverage

Fitch Ratings is to introduce new indices to cover payment rates of claims submitted to lenders' mortgage insurance providers (LMI) across prime residential mortgage-backed securities. Fitch said this.. read more

Businesses drag out payments to suppliers

The latest round of invoice payment data analysis by Dun & Bradstreet has shown business-to-business payment times slowing to an average of 56 days during the first quarter of 2014, the lowest rat.. read more