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Mortgage and other loan re-pricing will add about seven basis points to margins in the September half, according to Deutsche Bank. read more

Fixed-income fund managers would welcome the entry of lower-rated issuers into the covered bond market, although they fear small issuers would be hard-pressed to meet their liquidity requirements. read more

Business customers' satisfaction with their banks continues the slide that started at the beginning of the year. read more

Financial institutions will have their systems in place and ready to go when the Government's new account-switching regime starts on July 1. read more

The Treasury issued a draft regulation yesterday correcting an anomaly that would have seen credit unions lose access to reduced input tax credits when they rebranded as banks. read more

Big bank chief executives often talk about how tight the margins are at the corporate end of the lending business, and yesterday mining and materials group OneSteel provided an illustration of just.. read more

After passing on 30 basis points of the Reserve Bank's 50 basis point cash rate cut in May, ME Bank has passed on only 16 basis points of the latest cash rate reduction to its home loan customers. read more

Investors in Macquarie Group's latest SMART securitisation have accepted payment of less than the Libor rate for the A1 tranche of the deal. read more

Sell-side analysts have taken a more positive view of the business credit market, following the release of the latest lending data. read more

HSBC's co-head of Asian economic research, Fred Neumann, says Asia's ratio of credit to GDP has climbed to levels last seen during the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. read more