Capital proposals not just stringent but excessive 22 April 2010 4:40PM The consensus view of the local banking industry on what most irritates them on the international version of the overhaul of banking rules can be read in the Australian Bankers Association submissio.. read more
NAB feisty over Axa, for now 21 April 2010 4:33PM National Australia Bank is talking up its legal options to appeal against the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's decision to block its bid for the Australasian businesses of Axa Asia P.. read more
NAB better off without AXA 20 April 2010 4:43PM The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission late yesterday managed to publish a media release, but not detailed reasons, for its decision to oppose National Australia Bank's proposed takeover.. read more
NAB passes baton on savings rates 15 April 2010 4:40PM National Australia Bank may be allowing the momentum to slow on deposit inflows into its UBank brand, with the bank so far content to leave its interest rate unchanged on its previously market-leadi.. read more
Haphazard budgeting by CBA 12 April 2010 4:39PM Commonwealth Bank must inform the Finance Sector Union within 24 hours of any shift in its position of refusing to increase the wages of its staff, Fair Work Australia ordered on Friday. FWA decline.. read more
Setting up a new wave of disintermediation 09 April 2010 4:27PM Banks in Australia were urged to resist one element of the worldwide reform agenda for banking regulation, the leverage ratio, by a couple of speakers at an industry forum yesterday. read more
Harvester leases attract investors 08 April 2010 4:06PM CNH Capital yesterday priced $350 million in asset-backed securities in a deal lead by ANZ, and the first ABS transaction in six months. The loans are secured by leases over harvesting and other agr.. read more
Orderly rate rise this month 07 April 2010 4:24PM Mutterings by big bank CEOs over recent weeks on the likelihood of further widening margins on home loans came to nothing yesterday, as the sector's leading lenders lined up behind NAB (which once a.. read more
Bids due today on RBS 06 April 2010 3:42PM Up to half a dozen expressions of interest are likely to emerge by tonight's deadline in connection with the sale of a portfolio of branches in Scotland and England that Royal Bank of Scotland must.. read more
Panin choices clearer for ANZ 06 April 2010 3:41PM ANZ and Panin banks are beginning to unwind their long relationship in Indonesia. ANZ announced on Thursday that it was in "advanced discussions" to buy an additional 14 per cent stake in ANZ Panin fr.. read more