Goldfields Money wins second champion 15 April 2015 3:57PM Two contenders share the register, and soon the board table, at midget ADI Goldfields Money. read more
Banking meets Big Hero 6 in robot world 15 April 2015 3:53PM Followers of Marx and Asimov must wonder: where is the future and where are the robots? read more
GE Capital plans defenestration 13 April 2015 3:21PM GE Capital's remaining commercial finance businesses in Australia will be pared back or sold, as the conglomerate General Electric reorganises around its portfolio of industrial businesses. read more
Modern awards no good for banking, rules Fair Work Commission 13 April 2015 3:20PM The Finance Sector Union failed last week to persuade the Fair Work Commission to modernise industrial awards specific to ANZ, National Australia Bank and the Reserve Bank. read more
Pre-crisis CDO strife snares CBA 07 April 2015 3:32PM Commonwealth Bank will settle a class action over structured financial products dating from the closing phase of the 2000s credit boom. The settlement is worth an estimated A$50 million, The Australia.. read more
Jones puts NAB at centre of 'corrupt' banking sector 07 April 2015 3:28PM Retired Sydney academic Evan Jones last week consolidated a thesis on the Australian banking sector for the title Independent Australia. read more
Comment: ALP housing policy a credit shocker 01 April 2015 5:49PM Factors informing the supply of credit rank barely a mention in Australian Labor's discussion paper on housing affordability, released yesterday. read more
Handicap big banks quickly, cry minnows 01 April 2015 4:56PM Regional banks "strongly support the recommendation for an average advanced housing risk weight of between 25 per cent and 30 per cent on 'advanced' banks and would like to see this expedited," a coal.. read more
Hockey sets out to tax super savings 31 March 2015 4:53PM Artificially "converting" labour income into income from savings is a social problem, and one that may lead to tax policy reform, if Joe Hockey and the Abbott government share this thinking. read more
Scandinavian savings tax model promoted in tax paper 31 March 2015 4:52PM A "schedular system under which various types of income from savings are taxed separately to other income, and are taxed at relatively low, flat rates," is one centrepiece of the discussion paper on t.. read more