Holiday Coast and Regional Australia merger on track 28 February 2019 5:04PM A Special General Meeting of Holiday Coast Credit Union is set for May, to ratify a merger with RAB. read more
May crosses to IFM 28 February 2019 5:02PM Mixing the alphabet soup of super, a US-trained financial regulator and analyst: Zachary May. read more
Labor vague on bank taxes 26 February 2019 5:22PM It's a pay as much as you want rule, for now, in the world of Australian financial taxation.Bill Shorten's media release carefully omitted mention of the design or detail of his, for now, unfunded "$6.. read more
Marginal lenders failed on Senate stage 25 February 2019 5:25PM More stringent regulation of short-term consumer credit is inevitable, though the likes of Zip Money and Afterpay will be encouraged to rely on a code of practice. read more
Zip Money runs red 22 February 2019 5:11PM A fashionable ASX company, now $7 million in the red. read more
AUSWIDE focuses on deposits and branding 18 February 2019 5:02PM Building the customer deposit base "and decreasing the bank's reliance on higher cost securitisation funding" are priorities for Auswide Bank after a robust December half year.The Bundaberg, Queenslan.. read more
Under resourcing chronic at APRA 14 February 2019 5:06PM APRA has 135 frontline supervisors - too few. read more
Thorburn and Henry finally throw in the towel 08 February 2019 5:33PM The "global search" by NAB's board for a new CEO may, for once, deliver a global banker to lead a pillar of an insular Australian banking industry. read more
Banking code of practice 'needs to be law' 05 February 2019 5:36PM Industry codes of practice will include "enforceable code provisions" the report of the banking royal commission proposes. read more
Analysis: Relief cheats reform in Hayne finale 05 February 2019 5:31PM A bit of a fizzer or a manifesto for reform?Upending the business model of entities along the mortgage broking value chain is the most material recommendation from the royal commission.Giving industry.. read more