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The milestones for an initial public offer of NAB's Great Western Bank continue to be met, even as NAB considers an offer from a trade buyer. read more

Great Western Bank in the United Sates will be sold by way of trade sale, sparing NAB a drawn out share sale via the IPO route. read more

A complete mash up by the Banking Day team. The intended article runs today. read more

A host of Asian banks have had credit ratings lowered on hybrid capital instruments, Australian banks among them. read more

International collaboration is scant for "innovation active businesses", according to a report by Deloitte for the Business Council of Australia. read more

"Complex, important and heavily interconnected banks may still be problematic," EU commission vice-president Michel Barnier said in an end-of-tenure speech in London. read more

The new eftpos payments hub is "now live, with a number of financial institutions and processing transactions" from today, the payments scheme has announced read more

The stance on business lending of major banks is positioned differently to their home loan portfolios, with stark differences in each bank's standing relative to "system". read more

ANZ and National Australia Bank have had the best of the sector's financial year on the home lending front, with both reporting growth comfortably ahead of system. read more

ANZ is selling down its stake in a Vietnamese securities firm  - a stake it acquired during its earlier dabbles in investment banking in Asia, and one of the last investments in the region made b.. read more