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These are "sobering times" in the banking sector, David Carter, chief executive officer, banking and wealth at Suncorp says."I suspect that credit growth is slowing," Carter told Banking Day last week.. read more

A further, if discursive, issues paper from the review of the financial system external dispute resolution framework lays emphasis on two hot topics. read more

Deposit growth in the banking system is allowing banks to cut reliance on wholesale funding. Cheaper pricing at the short end has meant short term funding is on the rebound in Australian banking. read more

The Calvinist savings ethic that keeps banks in business has proven disposable in Australia in the past. And so it may be again, with the savings ratio taking a dive once more over the March 2017 quar.. read more

Indicators of financial health of both mid-market corporates and households have taken a turn for the worse, separate analysis from Equifax and Digital Finance Analytics suggests.The more grim assessm.. read more

Seven former executives of the Reserve Bank of Australia's subsidiary Note Printing Australia and the NPA's half-owned Securency International have a combined trial date, beginning in late January, ov.. read more

Macquarie Group expects the Major Bank Levy on liabilities to affect its profit by around A$90 million, the group outlined late on Friday.A report in the Financial Review on Friday - centred on scenar.. read more

Mutual ADIs have launched a campaign encouraging Australians to "check out the banking alternatives available to them." read more

Monthly banking statistics from APRA show growth in mortgages for Westpac during April was just 0.7 times system. read more

Capital requirements for banks in New Zealand "should be conservative relative to those for international peers" the Reserve Bank of New Zealand said yesterday in its Financial Stability Report. read more