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National Australia Bank has suffered a heavy fall in customer satisfaction over the past year, putting it at the bottom of the pack among the Big Four for the first time since 2011. read more

Greg Medcraft's advice to the heads of financial institutions is to accept that "customer regulation" is a reality that is feeding into the formal policy-making and regulatory processes. read more

The Chinese Government's best option for dealing with the country's mounting debt problem is to privatise indebted state-owned enterprises and use the proceeds to retire their debt, a senior economist.. read more

Lenders have continued to tighten their lending standards this year, with less variability in standards, according to new research. read more

A decision in the Western Australian Court of Appeal has limited the ability of a loan guarantor to challenge its payment obligations under a guarantee - an issue that has been up in the air in recent.. read more

eChoice shareholders have voted in favour of a resolution to remove the mortgage company from the Australian Securities Exchange. The company expects to have trading in its shares suspended on August.. read more

Mortgage industry researcher Digital Finance Analytics has reported a fall in mortgage stress, thanks to lower interest rates. read more

Small and medium business owners are more optimistic about conditions in the financial year ahead and are planning more spending on equipment and technology, the latest big bank SME surveys reveal. read more

Samsung Electronics has launched its Samsung Pay mobile digital wallet in Australia, with Citibank and American Express as launch partners. read more

Suncorp Bank chief executive John Nesbitt has announced his retirement and will leave the bank by the end of the year. read more