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Contactless payments are gathering pace as a payments option, at least in the niche merchant segment that is the taxi industry. Cabcharge yesterday provided an overview of the use of contactless bank.. read more

Issuers of covered bonds and mortgage-backed securities are being asked to pay the costs of a new analytical service that aims to tackle the scepticism towards this asset class among offshore invest.. read more

Another start-up is having a shot at establishing peer-to-peer lending in Australia. read more

Wide Bay Australia is looking to lift the sales efforts of its branch network, as new levels of lending only kept pace with asset run-off over the last half. read more

The spread of problem residential borrowers is becoming more concentrated in Queensland and New South Wales, while the incidence of stressed borrowers in "hot spots" is getting a little worse. read more

Banks are cutting jobs with such gusto that a majority of their staff say they want to work elsewhere. Being pragmatists, they want to work for miners. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's full year profit presentation highlighted the choices open to smaller banks that lack the reach and price leadership of their larger competitors. The bank left its final.. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will sell hybrid securities in the short term and might be in the market for ordinary shares if it can drum up further acquisition opportunities. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank has largely maintained its market share in the much diminished business of margin lending (or lending to fund investments in shares). read more

Goldfields Money, the baby of the listed deposit-taking sector, reported asset growth of 11 per cent and deposit growth of 18 per cent in the year to June 2012, with the Kalgoorlie-based tiddler aim.. read more