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Commonwealth Bank has reintroduced an online home loan application facility for new-to-bank customers, as part of its strategy of allowing customers to deal with the bank any way they want. read more

Foreign exchange service provider OzForex issued a statement yesterday, saying it would transfer all of the services currently provided by Westpac in Australia to other banking partners within its exi.. read more

Turnover in the debtor finance market fell in 2014 and client numbers continued a decline that that been going on since the financial crisis. read more

Roy Morgan Research found that, over an average four-week period, 62.3 per cent of bank customers deal with their bank by internet, compared with 33.9 per cent using a branch. read more

Home equity release specialist Australian Seniors Finance has launched an aged care loan (a type of reverse mortgage), designed to cater to retirees who want to keep the family home when they move int.. read more

The emergence of Islamic State, and its use of new funding techniques, calls for a renewed counter-terrorism financing effort. read more

Fewer than half of Australians with investable assets of A$1 million or more visited an investment adviser in 2014. read more

Yellow Brick Road bulked up during the six months to December, with the acquisitions of Resi Mortgage Corp and Vow Financial adding substantially to revenues and loans under administration. But costs.. read more

Growth in mortgage lending has plateaued, with Reserve Bank data showing that the annual growth rate was unchanged in November, December and January. It remains to be seen what impact last month's rat.. read more

More than a dozen mortgage lenders have not changed their variable mortgage rates in response to last month's 25 basis point reduction in the cash rate. read more