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"Settlement failures might increase" on residential developments flourishing in Australia's cities, the Reserve Bank of Australia cautioned in its half-yearly Financial Stability Review on Friday. read more

The RBA took a favourable view of the household sector, saying "risks have ameliorated somewhat since the previous Review as housing price growth has eased," before going on to praise industry reforms.. read more

Business finances "generally remain in good shape and broad indicators of financial stress are low" the Reserve Bank of Australia recited in its half-yearly Financial Stability Review on Friday. read more

A second opinion poll on attitudes to a royal commission into the banking and financial services sector shows a majority support the notion. read more

The Australian Bankers Association has "no intention to run a multi-million dollar campaign along the lines of that pursued by the mining industry" against the Labor government in 2010, Nic Frankham,.. read more

Labor's call for a banking royal commission may have well and truly hit the right chords. First, with the mass market of voters (one that overlaps, by and large, with the "mass affluent" segment hunte.. read more

Growth in the supply of business credit across the non-mining sector is better than ten per cent,  a new OECD report shows. read more

One of the first criminal proceedings - of an individual, rather than of a corporate entity - began in London last week in connection with allegations of bribery connected to Securency, a company part.. read more

US financial regulators have ruled the "living wills" of eight of America's largest banks were "not credible" or had "shortcomings", giving the banks until the beginning of October to remedy them or f.. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank have prevailed in another court case where a borrower investor in Great Southern wood lots refused to pay. read more