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Amid the controversy over the fines imposed on Barclays by regulators in the UK and US over its misleading contribution to the setting of benchmark interbank rates it is easy to overlook some de fac.. read more

Liberty Financial priced A$300 million in mortgage-backed securities on Friday, the second transaction supported by non-conforming loans to make it to market this year. read more

ANZ may have to incorporate, and shift capital, to its retail banking operation in Singapore. The Monetary Authority in Singapore yesterday outlined plans to require foreign banks " that are importan.. read more

Borrowers with low-doc loans, who tend to be self-employed, may be experiencing a greater than the usual level of difficulty paying their loans. read more

Security researchers McAfee say they have uncovered a form of banking fraud that employs "server-side components and heavy automation". read more

US money market funds reduced their holdings of short-term liabilities of Australian banks during May, a report by Fitch Ratings shows. read more

Four things stand out from the 2011 census that was released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics yesterday, including one surprise - that the percentage of households with a home loan has increased.. read more

Financial flows are proving a handy, and even reliable, indicator of the present state of demand and investment in the economy. read more

A retail payments hub could serve as a central database of "address" information for payees and also handle the delivery of better remittance information, the head of payments policy at the Reserve.. read more

International industry lobbying for a watering down of the liquidity targets proposed for banks may be successful, with both rumoured and confirmed evidence of a change of heart on the part of regul.. read more