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The pace at which debit cards are overtaking credit cards as preferred payment instruments may be slowing down. read more

CUA is winding up its white label credit card arrangement with Citibank and plans to launch its own credit card. read more

Commercial finance broker Merchant Cash has launched a website where businesses can apply for a free Veda credit score and be matched with an appropriate credit provider. read more

Lending to residential property investors picked up strongly in February, reversing the trend of recent months. read more

The Government's export credit agency Efic has expanded its loan facilities for exporters, with the launch of a loan designed for small and medium businesses. read more

Mortgage aggregator AFG has reported a big increase in the number of fixed rate loans being written by its brokers. read more

Lenders offering self-managed superannuation fund loans may benefit from a move by the Australian Taxation Office to require non-financial institution (related party) SMSF loans to be arranged on comm.. read more

Bank of Queensland grew its mortgage book at almost twice the rate of system growth during the six months to February, underpinning seven per cent growth in earnings for the half. read more

What makes Bank of Queensland's announcement that it is increasing variable mortgage rates unusual is not that the bank is doing it, but that it is bothering to inform the market. read more

Bank of Queensland is raising its variable rates for the second time in six months, citing higher funding costs and the impact of competition. This is despite the fact that funding costs and funding m.. read more