SocietyOne a match for mutual ADIs

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

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

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

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

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

Systemic eyes on bank rents in super

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

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

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