AMP joins rates parade 16 December 2016 4:46PM AMP plays along with a 15 basis points rate hike on some home loans. read more
Less than eleven cents in the dollar for unsecured creditors of insolvent companies 15 December 2016 4:48PM Unsecured lending is for mugs and, according to new insolvency data, insolvent trading is rife. read more
Morrison sets out bond risk trade off 15 December 2016 4:45PM More 'very long term' bonds may be heading down the public sector borrowing pipeline, with the treasurer, Scott Morrison, airing concern over bond rollover risk. read more
Liberty skates in banks' wake 15 December 2016 4:41PM Liberty Financial is getting pricing at no wide spread to banks on a 'non-conforming' A$500 million mortgage bond. Hundreds of basis points better than it faced in its early days. read more
Flight Centre ruling a caution to platform banks 15 December 2016 4:40PM Investment platform operators and their bank owners will be keen readers of a High Court judgment that leaves Flight Centre red-faced. The ACCC won an appeal from a Federal Court full court ruling ove.. read more
Police walk CUFSS liquidity lifeline 14 December 2016 6:00PM The Credit Union Financial Support System is fading, with a 'going concern' question mark in the air after the departures of several large mutuals in recent times - Police Bank becoming the latest to.. read more
Banks pundits tip 2017 as year of soft growth 14 December 2016 5:54PM All the economic signs are pointing towards a very flat 2017, with two more RBA mandated rate cuts possible. read more
FX operators duck and dive 13 December 2016 5:20PM The foreign exchange market may be less of a leviathan than sometimes imagined. "For the first time in 15 years, FX trading volumes contracted between two consecutive Triennial Surveys," the Bank for.. read more
Bond rates claim mortgage pricing 12 December 2016 4:48PM ANZ and Bendigo have announced increases to variable rates, bringing the number of lenders making similar moves over the past week to six. read more
Hartzer sets up Wales bicentennial 12 December 2016 4:43PM Any plan for the resurrection of the Bank of New South Wales was conspicuously absent from Brian Hartzer's address to Westpac's 199th annual meeting. But it is part of the trust gap Hartzer says Westp.. read more