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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

Mutual banks are jostling for bragging rights in industry growth stakes in Australian lending, with four large names putting a degree of substance into the mutual ADI sector's pretence to being a fift.. read more

Australia fares poorly on a "fintech banking scorecard ranking" devised by sell-side analysts at UBS. read more

A specialist funder of some form dedicated to directing increased investment toward social housing may be gathering supporters. read more

Years of stirring over the level of bank late fees and the rights of customers to compensation for any overcharging may be at end, following a ruling from the High Court on the only class action again.. read more

Each of the four High Court judges in the ANZ fees case wrote a separate opinion, and much of their reasoning centred on the law of penalties, with the scope of this law seemingly made less pro-consum.. read more