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International collaboration is scant for "innovation active businesses", according to a report by Deloitte for the Business Council of Australia. read more

"Complex, important and heavily interconnected banks may still be problematic," EU commission vice-president Michel Barnier said in an end-of-tenure speech in London. read more

The new eftpos payments hub is "now live, with a number of financial institutions and processing transactions" from today, the payments scheme has announced read more

The stance on business lending of major banks is positioned differently to their home loan portfolios, with stark differences in each bank's standing relative to "system". read more

ANZ and National Australia Bank have had the best of the sector's financial year on the home lending front, with both reporting growth comfortably ahead of system. read more

ANZ is selling down its stake in a Vietnamese securities firm  - a stake it acquired during its earlier dabbles in investment banking in Asia, and one of the last investments in the region made b.. read more

ANZ's Asian partnerships are a lacklustre bunch. On CLSA analysis, A$4.02 billion of book value produced a return of 9.9 per cent, versus 15.4 per cent for the group, in 2013. read more

The Financial Stability Board yesterday spelled out a menu of measures to provide "legal certainty in cross-border resolution," a goal set at the St Petersburg G20 Summit in 2013 with a deadline of ne.. read more

Memoirs of Labor luminaries continue to add perspective on the banking side of the 2008 world economic crisis. read more

Some form of clamp on banks' inventiveness in their risk weighting practices (for calculating capital) may be in the works. read more