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UK-based alternative finance fund, ESF Capital, is to acquire a 30 per cent stake in Australia's leading peer-to-peer business lending platform, ThinCats Australia. read more

Yet another peer-to-peer style lender has emerged to target the small to medium business loan sector. read more

Moody's Investors Service and Fitch Ratings have assigned provisional ratings to notes to be issued under a new ABS Series 2016-1 Trust from St George, making it Westpac's first ABS deal for 2016. read more

One sidebar to aftermath of the global financial crisis, and the "lower for longer" interest rate environment has been how well Australia's major banks have weathered a low growth environment. The fur.. read more

Among the topics canvassed in a session at the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit on market risk for Australia's major banks was the apparent conundrum posed by Macquarie Group and.. read more

ASIC has confirmed some widely held industry rumours about a second Big Four bank suspected of manipulating Australia's short-term bank bill swap reference rate with an announcement that civil penalty.. read more

A recent regulatory proposal from the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority could ease securitisation issuance based on master trust structures in Australia, according to a report from Standard &.. read more

Speaking "in conversation" mode at the Australian Financial Review Banking and Wealth Summit in Sydney yesterday, Financial Services Inquiry chairman David Murray was clearly looking for further impro.. read more

Comments by ASIC chairman Greg Medcraft at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's recent annual conference on the need to focus on culture are still echoing across the banking sector. read more

According to new research from ING Direct, ATM fees, monthly bank account fees and booking fees for events and tickets top the list of "most hated fees" amongst retail banking customers. read more