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The CBA's new A$650 million Climate Certified Bond issue brings Australia a status unmatched by any other advanced economy financial sector, according to a 'green bond' proponent. read more

The Australian Bankers Association has published its response to the independent review of the Code of Banking Practice, and indicated how a redrafted Code might look. read more

Australia's new payments platform is entering its final testing stages aiming to go live in the final quarter of this year, and promises much greater functionality than when first envisaged by the RBA.. read more

With the New Payments Platform seemingly on schedule to be up and running in October, its designer-operators have been turning their minds to what lies beyond launch date. read more

No Australian banks made the top 12 lists in the global and regional league tables for 2016 published by financial services analytics company Coalition. read more

Effective data use is increasingly a key competitive advantage, but customer trust is vital before they will agree to trade privacy for convenience, ASIC's annual forum heard. read more

During the second half of a panel discussion on "Competition in financial services" at ASIC's annual forum yesterday, the tone turned decidedly Shakespearean when Wayne Byres, chairman of the Australi.. read more

In yesterday's ASIC annual forum, Wayne Byres, chairman of the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, was asked about the Big Four banks' lending behaviour. read more

The proliferation of increasingly complex financial regulation has inevitably inspired technological responses - the so-called regtech of aggregated data, machine learning and automated decision-makin.. read more

Peer-to-peer lenders' lower cost structure and rapid decision-making on loans is just one of several emerging threats for the banking sector to deal with, according to Pete Steel, CBA's executive gene.. read more