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As term deposit interest rates tumble, Newcastle Permanent Building Society says it is ready to take on the big banks. read more

The maintenance of full employment, chiselled in stone. read more

"The supply side of the labour market is turning out to be more flexible than we had earlier expected," Phillip Lowe told an RBA board dinner in Sydney last night. read more

Monetary policy settings "will leave us short", so the RBA is drumming for a fiscal stimulus and "structural policies". read more

Endeavour Mutual Bank and Sydney Credit Union will push on with a merger, the boards of the two mutual ADIs announced at the end of last week. read more

The trust deficit in banking may have a buddy in fintech land, raising questions over business models depending on the "open banking" principles that will soon apply in Australia. read more

There's an increase in disruptions and operational outages in retail payment services. How many? Nobody knows. read more

Two junior ministers will share responsibility for financial services in Scott Morrison's new government. Michael Sukkar returns as assistant treasurer and also minister for housing, while Jane Hume w.. read more

"Poor" and "moderate" are the best that can be said for the "quality" of the awareness of weaknesses at Australian banks following the industry's "self-assessment" challenge set by APRA. read more

ANZ in New Zealand has been rebuked by the Reserve Bank, with the RBNZ on Friday announcing that it "revoked ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited's accreditation to model its own operational risk capital requ.. read more