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HSBC last night outlined a shift in strategy that bends to the prevailing regulatory winds, including plans for a hefty cut in risk weighted assets. read more

The allocation of capital by banks for interest rate risk is the subject of more scrutiny by global regulators and may lead to more prescriptive methods intended to minimise regulatory arbitrage. read more

APRA's efforts to corral runaway growth in investment lending "is now starting to bear fruit," its chair, Wayne Byres, told a Senate committee yesterday. read more

A wine grape farmer who signed guarantee documents on the bonnet of a bank manager's car in a farm paddock has succeeded in having his liability to Commonwealth Bank set aside. read more

The level of credit card interest rates charged by banks and others in Australia may become the subject of an informal review, financial regulators flagged at a Senate committee yesterday. read more

Close to 500 people at Commonwealth Bank are now working on sorting out the rights and wrongs of the bank's systematic misconduct in select financial planning matters. read more

Banks have more work to do to align personal incentives with organisational interests, the head of APRA, Wayne Byres, cautioned in a speech in Singapore on Friday. read more

A shift in strategy - and even a decline in the balance sheet  - may be on the agenda as the highly regarded Westpac Institutional Bank chief Rob Whitfield walks out the door at Westpac. read more

Anticipated reforms to bank capital methodology will be of material benefit to regional banks, an analysis by Standard & Poor's suggests. read more

Oake Securities, a newly established specialist fund, aims to raise A$250 million over seven years to invest in second mortgages. read more