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Queries over asset quality in banking must be mounting, as evidence builds of a decided drift in the level of problem loans. read more

Western Australian ADI minnow Goldfields Money will work to a thinner target for its capital base, the firm explained on Friday. read more

In business, the powerful prey on the weak. In banking, the oligopoly feasts on the cowering sector that is challenger mutual ADIs such as credit unions. read more

The credit quality story at ANZ in the June quarter may be more nuanced than implied in an outline used by the bank to support its capital raising last week. read more

Commonwealth Bank may be holding onto its mantle as the best performing bank by return on equity, but the board of directors could be pushing for a more savvy performance yet from senior managers. read more

The credit quality story may not be straightforward in Australian banking, if markers of stress in Westpac's banking book are anything to go by. read more

Weekly pay packets are bounding along in the finance and insurance sector, with a rate of growth over the last year more than three times and a half times the average rise for the wider workforce. read more

Industry Super Australia stirred the pot yesterday with a cheeky poll finding trashing banks. read more

Commonwealth Bank's institutional banking division produced an uninspiring result over its 2015 year, with cash net profit advancing only one per cent to A$1.3 billion. read more

Credit quality may be looking pretty crisp at Commonwealth Bank, if recent steps to produce higher quality new business echoes down the years. read more