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Australian Prudential Regulation Authority chairman John Laker may not widen the definition of liquid assets to include mortgage-backed securities, as some in the industry hope. read more

Euronet's Australian payments business, epay, went backwards for the seventh successive quarter late last year. read more

Banks in Australia contributed a meagre A$158 million to private equity firms in the 2011/12 financial year, a survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found. read more

Commonwealth Bank is to use cheaper wholesale funding in preference to more expensive retail deposit funding, the bank said yesterday. read more

By June this year Commonwealth Bank will have completed its six-year core banking modernisation program. By then commercial lending will have migrated to the new system and the big IT project will b.. read more

Net profit for Commonwealth Bank's Asian operations increased 24 per cent, to A$47 million, in the December half. read more

The Australian Securities and Investment Commission will tighten financial targets for debenture issuers, if it adopts policies outlined in a consultation document released yesterday. read more

Innovia Films said yesterday that it would buy the Reserve Bank of Australia's 50 per cent share of Securency International. The company makes polymer substrate for banknotes. read more

The RBA will need to rethink the governance of its subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, and either have the board comprise wholly of bank executives or mainly independent directors, says a review. read more

A simmering tussle over the terms under which mortgage mangers source funds from a former subsidiary of ANZ is warming up, with one non-bank leader accusing the new owner of "stealing" income. read more