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Eight lenders, including three major banks and a couple of names rarely pinged by ASIC, may not even be guilty of the shortcomings alleged. read more

Credit Union Australia will curtail, or pause, writing new loans for property investors altogether, the Financial Review reports."We have observed an increase in new investor applications in response.. read more

There's another long, Westpac bicentennial read in the Financial Review today, an interview with the CEO Brian Hartzer that is heavy on tech themes. Hartzer is hopeful that Westpac will offer Apple Pa.. read more

Pepper, Liberty, La Trobe, FirstMac, Resimac, AFG Home Loans, RedZed - the whole spread of non-banks -  are all APRA regulated now, at least when it comes to macroprudential policy and the use of.. read more

Weeks of guesswork ended on Friday, with APRA dictating a long list of new macroprudential policy measures.The professional worrywarts at the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority did not mess ar.. read more

It may take the best part of a year for the four banks that sought to boycott Apple Pay to change direction, make up with the US technology giant and bring the payment app to market.The Australian Com.. read more

A strange episode in modern Australian banking history is near its end, with CBA, NAB and Westpac humiliated - inevitably - by the ACCC over Apple Pay. Apple won hands down on practically every argume.. read more

A wind back of questionable lending practices by major banks is producing a turnaround in home loan flows for Bank of Queensland, despite a fall in profit over the half year to February 2017. read more

The issues paper from the Productivity Commission on alternative default models for superannuation is no guide to how the long-parried conquest by banks of the contested sector might proceed. read more

A mortgage-backed bond from RedZed Lending Solutions brings more flavour than usual to the RMBS sector, the A$250 million deal overwhelmingly comprised of low documentation loans. read more