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Gary Thursby, head of strategy at Westpac, is to take on wider responsibilities. Thursby, a former CBA executive, will look after transformation and business services from October. read more

The five largest bank home loan funders may be able to trim their capital risk weighing, and maybe pricing, on home loans under a refinement to year-old rules outlined on Friday by APRA. read more

All the heat of the Economics Committee of the House of Representatives will be thrown at Australian bank chief executives when they make their annual appearance before it.  read more

Somewhere along the way, the role and influence of the capital market in shaping and setting monetary policy is lost in the angst-laden debates that are a hallmark of modern Australian banking. read more

Opponents of lending by banks to companies in the fossil fuel energy supply chain have collated a new list of estimated lending by the Big Four Australian banks to the sector. read more

An Australian Competition and Consumer Commission study of telecommunications is in the works, and may have significant outcomes for banking services. read more

Standard & Poor's has applied a risk adjustment filter to bank capital and re-ordered the list of the world's top banks, with some surprising results. read more

Bank of Sydney and Bank Australia are the only two lenders to have so far announced that they will pass on the full 25 basis point reduction in the cash rate. read more

Any acceleration in loan defaults by business may be concentrated in city centres and urban areas, a study by accounting firm SVP Partners suggests. read more

Rodney Culleton, a candidate from Pauline Hanson's One Nation, was yesterday the tenth senator elected from Western Australia. read more