SocietyOne a match for mutual ADIs 10 July 2017 3:48PM Marketplace lender SocietyOne yesterday shared key data on its progress across the first half of 2017, and the content and openness is bound to encourage the view that an initial public offering is we.. read more
KKR shadows Latitude with Pepper bid 06 July 2017 2:51PM A merger of Pepper with Latitude, once the consumer finance arm of GE Capital, may inform the interest of private equity firm KKR Credit Advisors and allies in a takeover of Pepper. read more
KKR 'advances' on Pepper 05 July 2017 3:44PM Private equity giant KKR "is in advanced negotiations to buy listed non-bank lender Pepper Group" via KKR's credit team, the Financial Review reports. read more
Capital 'shortfall' near nil for G-SIBS 05 July 2017 3:42PM The average capital ratio of large internationally active banks continued to rise in the first half of 2016, while the capital shortfall continued to fall, according to the Basel Committee on Banking.. read more
Liberals aim to foil SA bank levy 04 July 2017 3:28PM Plans by the South Australian Labor government to enact a secondary levy on select bank liabilities may tank in the upper house of the state's parliament after the South Australian parliamentary Liber.. read more
Restraint curbs business not investment lending 03 July 2017 3:47PM Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, and Suncorp Bank, are the only banks of note to have applied the brakes on mortgage lending over the months of April and May 2017, on the back of APRA's late March measures.. read more
Systemic eyes on bank rents in super 03 July 2017 3:44PM The wheels are turning on the third and final phase of the Productivity Commission's review of superannuation, one that will tread once more well-worn terrain over models for default allocation of sav.. read more
Barnaba wings onto RBA board 03 July 2017 3:43PM A second veteran of Macquarie Bank will join the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. Mark Barnaba will serve a five-year term from 31 August 2017. read more
Inertia the principal pillar in banking 19 June 2017 3:44PM Fifty per cent of adults "have always been with the bank they first opened an account with," a survey for Canstar Blue has found. And bank customers like to visit their bank's branches, mainly to make.. read more
'Disadvantaged' banks maintain levy dramatics 19 June 2017 3:42PM A partisan and divided banking sector pressed disparate cases over the Major Bank Levy for the final time before a Senate committee on Friday. read more