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In a clear indication that new online lenders are having an impact on the big banks, National Australia Bank has launched its first ever unsecured small business loan and it is using the sort of origi.. read more

Marketplace lender DirectMoney has established a referral agreement with MyState and will refer excess loan applications to the bank. read more

A month after the Reserve Bank cut the cash rate by 25 basis points, home loan customers of a number of institutions are still waiting to hear how their lenders will respond. read more

Commonwealth Bank has offered a total of A$4.8 million in compensation to 414 customers and former customers of its financial panning businesses who received poor advice. read more

A few months into his tenure as chief executive of finance company FlexiGroup, Symon Brewis-Weston is putting the cleaners through the business. At an investor briefing yesterday Brewis-Weston announc.. read more

Business lending has overtaken housing finance as the driver of growth in credit, with the highest annual growth rate since the financial crisis. read more

Commonwealth Bank has made a couple of enhancements to its retail digital banking service, adding a "Photo a Bill" facility and instant account-opening functions to the Commbank app. read more

Mortgage lending in the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority's high-risk categories fell in the March quarter, with reductions in the proportion of new interest-only loans and high loan-to-valua.. read more

The latest entrant into the mortgage market has combined the features of a comparison site and a brokerage to deliver what it claims will be "a new era in property finance." read more

The Australian Taxation Office has pushed back the deadline for self-managed superannuation fund trustees to ensure that any borrowing arrangements are structured on an arm's length basis. The deadlin.. read more