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Farm finance will be cheaper and more readily available soon for troubled producers, with the Australian Government planning to widen the existing cheap farm loan scheme introduced by the former Lab.. read more

The Financial System Inquiry would explore the extent to which stability objectives hinder competition, inquiry chair David Murray, said in a talk to the Committee for Economic Development of Australi.. read more

Three years after National Australia Bank launched its marketing differentiator under the rubric of a "break up" with the big banks, how is the strategy going? Superficially, very well, although a clo.. read more

Commonwealth Bank produced a fresh performance of the comedy that is the banking sector's self-assessment of its "cash profit" yesterday. The bank opted to omit an infamous bad debt expense from its.. read more

Bankwest has ceased to be a millstone for Commonwealth Bank and is now producing a credible profit, with much of the past strife with asset quality now resolved. read more

Commonwealth Bank took an indirect shot at APRA's approach to measuring bank capital adequacy yesterday, arguing that on alternative measures used offshore the bank's capital base was among the high.. read more

The Australian banking industry remains "somewhat more exposed to funding and liquidity risks compared with some other highly-rated systems", credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said yesterda.. read more

Price discounting on loans across the industry is chipping away at banks' interest margins, if ANZ's trading update for the December 2013 quarter is any guide. read more

In a foretaste of the sort of arguments that are no doubt about to swamp the Financial System Inquiry, the mutual bank lobby is calling for three tax changes that would work to its benefit and one g.. read more

Asian banks operating in Australia have increased their share of total business credit to almost 7.5 per cent, from around four per cent in 2008. read more