Morrison sets out bond risk trade off

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

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

Police walk CUFSS liquidity lifeline

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

FX operators duck and dive

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

Hartzer sets up Wales bicentennial

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