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Investec Bank Australia has shown there are still a few risk-takers left in the banking market by taking over the funding of failed Queensland base metals miner Kagara Ltd. read more

Lenders are overhauling their investment loan products in a bid to overcome investors' reluctance to borrow to buy shares and buy into managed funds. read more

Last week produced two issues of residential mortgage-backed securities - a rather rare class these days - with the second of these issues, from AMP Bank, faring worse than the RMBS sold by Westpac.. read more

Sell-side banking analysts are not convinced about the big banks' reliance on income from volatile markets' business and the latter's ability to produce income growth in the March half-year. read more

Margin loan balances hit an eight-year low in the March 2012 quarter. Reserve Bank figures published yesterday show a fall from A$15.1 billion in the December quarter to $14.9 billion in March. read more

Consumers are proving slow to respond to innovation in the payments market, according to new research. read more

Westpac will pay 140 basis points over the one-month bank bill swap rate on the A$1.06 billion top tranche of its latest issue of residential mortgage-backed securities. read more

Australian Unity chief executive David Bryant is on the lookout for merger opportunities and believes he has a good model for consolidating mutuals. read more

The major banks failed to meet their obligations for reporting non-statutory earnings figures in the half-year results presentations they have issued over the past few weeks. read more

Suncorp Bank suffered a deterioration in the asset quality of its core bank during the March quarter. read more