Most feast on billion-dollar kill

Commonwealth Bank walks away with the richest share of the pickings from the last fortnight's banking feast - one that, at a click of the wrist, delivers a notional addition to profit of $1.1 billio.. read more

CBA back in RMBS market

Commonwealth Bank is working the final weeks of the calendar year hard to drum up new sources of wholesale funding from the domestic market. read more

RHG finally winds down

RHG Limited, the former Rams Home Loans, will sell its residual home loan book and return its net assets to investors, the company announced at its annual meeting, held in Sydney yesterday. read more

Opportunities amid rate confusion

ANZ is making a big effort to cut through the noise generated by its 39 basis point rise in home loans rates. It's not only wiping out exit fees on its own loans, but is also offering to pay $1000 t.. read more

Exit fee options narrow for niche lenders

The final version of ASIC's guide for lenders on its approach to break fees on home loans is a little friendlier towards borrowers and a little stricter towards providers than the first draft. read more

More limits on executive pay likely

Further limit on banks' flexibility to work out suitable salary packages with their most senior staff could form one element of the package of banking reforms Treasurer Wayne Swan plans to outline n.. read more

Low yield proposed on CBA retail bond

Anyone considering an investment in the five-year retail bond that Commonwealth Bank yesterday commenced preliminary marketing for may be selling themselves short on the interest rate. read more

Scraps feed the banking debate

Commonwealth Bank helped keep the debate, however scatty, over bank pricing and bank conduct and bank regulation on the front pages of the weekend newspapers, and with more echoes of that debate featu.. read more

Abacus asks: why buy what you already own?

The demutualisation of Goldfields Credit Union will be the third in a decade. Statewest Credit Society, which listed through the Home Building Society in 2006 and disappeared into the innards of Bank.. read more