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Retired Sydney academic Evan Jones last week consolidated a thesis on the Australian banking sector for the title Independent Australia. read more

Factors informing the supply of credit rank barely a mention in Australian Labor's discussion paper on housing affordability, released yesterday. read more

Regional banks "strongly support the recommendation for an average advanced housing risk weight of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent on 'advanced' banks and would like to see this expedited," a coal.. read more

Artificially "converting" labour income into income from savings is a social problem, and one that may lead to tax policy reform, if Joe Hockey and the Abbott government share this thinking. read more

A "schedular system under which various types of income from savings are taxed separately to other income, and are taxed at relatively low, flat rates," is one centrepiece of the discussion paper on t.. read more

The Australian government is planning to proceed with a tax of five basis points on bank deposits to be announced in the May Budget, the Financial Review reported on Saturday. read more

The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Friday said it laid charges against Macquarie Capital for underwriting a public offering "despite obtaining a due diligence report indicating that the Chin.. read more

After months of indecision, preceded by outright opposition, the Australian Government yesterday said it would sign a memorandum of understanding on the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, which wou.. read more

Demand for faster weekend payments is driving demand for the UK mobile payments service Paym. read more

Recent sharp falls in commodity prices are more annoying than worrying for supervisors of loans to resource companies. read more