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At Friday's AGM, NAB CEO Andrew Thorburn was keen to spruik the finance the bank was offering to projects supporting an orderly transition to a low-carbon economy and protecting environmental amenitie.. read more

As was widely expected - indeed, it was foreshadowed by CBA itself - Australia's antimony laundering regulator Austrac served Commonwealth Bank with an amended statement of claim yesterday. read more

The Commonwealth Bank yesterday announced via an ASX statement circulated after close of trade that is has filed its response to the civil proceedings commenced by Austrac on 3 August 2017. read more

Despite admitting to shortcomings in its risk assessment procedures when introducing intelligent ATMs, CBA is also claiming the high ground over the limits it now sets on the use of the ATMs. read more

Opening the 2017 Australian Payment Summit in Sydney, Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe said:  "I am being asked increasingly frequently: does the RBA intend to issue a digital form of the Austra.. read more

ANZ has completed its Wealth Australia simplification with the sale of its life insurance arm to Zurich Australia, raising almost A$3 billion in the process. read more

Fast-growing West Australian mutual P&N Bank has shown how smaller banks can catch up to the big players by thoughtful use of relatively low-cost technologies to link customer data across all appl.. read more

An often-overlooked - and so far unused - component of APRA's Basel III "macroprudential toolkit" was the focus of a speech to an Actuaries Institute Banking Seminar in Sydney by Pat Brennan, executiv.. read more

The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics yesterday tabled its third report on reforms of the Australian banking sector, making the case for forcing the issue on the routing of sale.. read more

Breaches of their provision of credit obligations by banks remains a key risk area, the Banking Code Compliance Monitoring Committee's annual report for 2016/17 reveals. read more