Marketlend jostles in P2P sector 12 December 2014 4:20PM Marketlend, another P2P style lender, is making its debut in the Australian market. read more
Demand driving investment lending flurry 11 December 2014 4:54PM An air of reconsideration must soon take the wind out of the mortgage market's sails, as the banking sector ponders the implications of the APRA and ASIC crack down on more adventurous home loan pract.. read more
Money3 short term lender roll up proceeds 11 December 2014 4:51PM Money3 will acquire the "assets and business" of Paid International, the Melbourne-based financier confirmed yesterday. read more
APRA and ASIC pull the leash on risky lending 10 December 2014 4:51PM Rapid growth in loans to investors and related forms of higher risk lending by banks will draw elevated "supervisory intensity" from financial regulators over coming months. read more
Public interest ahead of industry interest: Murray 09 December 2014 4:59PM Society must "take practical steps to reduce moral hazard" connected to the financial sector, David Murray, head of the Financial System Inquiry, told an industry audience yesterday. read more
Bank ratings prospects two-sided in wake of FSI report 09 December 2014 4:58PM All three major credit ratings agencies pointed to the prospect of negative impacts on bank ratings from the final report of the Financial System Inquiry. read more
Lost files lead to NAB business lending loss 09 December 2014 4:55PM An inability to produce key files to a court hearing has forced National Australia Bank to write off A$2 million in business loans to a Sydney couple. read more
Seven flag carriers make disruptor list 09 December 2014 4:55PM A handful of Australian financial technology innovators earned a mention in a report by AWI, KPMG Australia and the Financial Services Council that identified "those companies most likely to succeed d.. read more
Cross-border claims rise 09 December 2014 4:53PM The cross-border claims of BIS reporting banks rose by 1.2 per cent to US$30 trillion over the year to June 2014, the Bank for International Settlements said in its Quarterly Review. read more
Reform balls in APRA's, not Hockey's, court 08 December 2014 5:08PM Joe Hockey may be talking the language of giving the industry until March 2015 to respond to the final report of the Financial System Inquiry, but the intellectual weight of the work of David Murray's.. read more