Payment screening foils scammers 31 October 2012 5:21PM Screening customer payments for transfers to suspected scammers has saved National Australia Bank customers around A$1.9 million over the last 18 months. read more
More data more often needed by banks 30 October 2012 4:38PM Banks have much further to go collate data in a timely manner to meet their internal risk management requirements, let alone the increasing demands for information from regulators. read more
Four per cent of ANZ profits earned in Asia 26 October 2012 5:30PM How much profit does ANZ earn in Asia under its own steam? Around four per cent. read more
Banksia freezes bondholder funds 26 October 2012 5:26PM Billion-dollar mortgage fund manager Banksia Securities called in the receivers yesterday, after a review by its new chief executive revealed many more problem loans than previously acknowledged. read more
Higher capitalised banks may be no safer 25 October 2012 5:29PM More and diligent supervision of banks is at least as vital to patrolling the behaviours that might give rise to severe losses as much as a protective buffer of increased capital the head of financi.. read more
Risk of business default climbs 24 October 2012 5:40PM More indicators of the downbeat outlook for the banking sector emerged yesterday, with pointers to rising business loan defaults and to a softening in demand for consumer credit. read more
Agile banks needed to restore trust 24 October 2012 5:38PM Banks need to adapt their business models to cater to the demands of a restless public whose trust in the industry, globally, "is at an all-time low", says ANZ's Australian CEO, Phil Chronican. read more
T-note floor scrapped 24 October 2012 5:37PM A change in the funding policy of the Australian government may drive investors, including managers of the liquidity books of banks, to reconsider their options. read more
Corporate tax payments pulled forward 23 October 2012 5:19PM Lenders will have to review the cash flow models of 10,500 companies affected by an Australian Government decision to make larger businesses pay their company tax payments monthly rather than quarte.. read more
Robo support for NAB staff 22 October 2012 5:19PM NAB's frontline will have to rely on their peers and a database of answers to frequently asked questions if they are to resolve thorny customer problems from now on, as the bank closes down a long-s.. read more