Last hurrah for fee-free home loans 27 January 2011 5:32PM Zero application fees on home loans - one of the long-standing price gimmicks used by banks to stir up demand - will soon be a thing of the past. read more
Wind-up for high yield Challenger fund 25 January 2011 4:56PM More than two years after limiting investor withdrawals on the Challenger High Yield Fund, the fund manager now proposes to return 20 per cent of capital to remaining unit holders and to convert the b.. read more
MUFJ scouts for banks in Asia and Australia 24 January 2011 5:57PM Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is studying possible bank and wealth management business buys in Asia, Australia and the United States, NTD reported on Friday. read more
European retail market tapped by Coca-Cola Amatil 21 January 2011 5:06PM Australian soft drink giant Coca-Cola Amatil has made a rare sale of Australian corporate bonds to the offshore retail market, raising $175 million. read more
ANZ hires RBS China chief 21 January 2011 4:57PM Long-standing RBS China chief Charles Li will move to run ANZ's Chinese operations. read more
Telstra hires former St George CEO 21 January 2011 4:50PM Telstra has hired former senior banker Paul Fegan to run strategy and corporate services. read more
Three-year pay deal worked out at NAB 20 January 2011 5:06PM A new three-year deal with the Finance Sector Union sets out rises for NAB staff. They'll match expected inflation only by meeting new performance hurdles. read more
Financial services still a minor growth option for Post 20 January 2011 5:02PM In its submission to the Senate's bank competition inquiry, Australia Post has shown no signs of its much-rumored push to widen its range of banking services. read more
BankWest gets back to its roots 19 January 2011 5:22PM BankWest's new cross-platform media campaign continues with the long running "Happy Banking" theme but pitches to the WA market. It plays up BankWest's Western Australian heritage and its ongoing comm.. read more
Floods trigger foreign ATM fee waivers 17 January 2011 5:42PM The rationale for pricing of automatic teller machine fees will be subject to an experiment in flood affected areas of Queensland over the next month as ATM owners agree to waive fees charged to custo.. read more