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A few financial parameters have emerged on the portfolio of branches and customer relationships being sold in Britain by Royal Bank of Scotland. read more

Macquarie Bank looks likely to boost its retail liabilities by more than $9 billion, assuming investors in the Macquarie Cash Management Trust agree to convert their savings to a regular bank deposit. read more

After a two-year wait, ANZ yesterday said it received in-principle approval for a foreign bank licence in India from local regulators. read more

Some of the politics behind the working out of international rule-setting for banks got an airing at the ASIC Summer School in Melbourne yesterday. read more

One seventh of the loan book of the Lloyds Banking Group business in Australia ranked as impaired at the end of December 2009, financial statements for the group published in Britain on Friday night s.. read more

Lenders mortgage insurance helped prop up the wider general insurance business of QBE Insurance Group in 2009, but the details will have to wait for publication of better data by QBE's LMI subsidiary.. read more

Customers Limited, the owner of the largest fleet of automatic teller machines in Australia, will make a second return of capital to shareholders in coming months. read more

The net profit of ING Direct in Australia fell by $22 million, or 14 per cent, in the second half of the 2009 calendar year, which is also the financial year for the bank. read more

The revenue recognition policy of iCash Payments may warrant a major question mark after the deployer of automatic teller machines reported revenue in its profit and loss statement more than a third h.. read more

National Australia Bank adjusted its reserving policy from the December 2009 quarter, cutting the tier one capital ratio by 13 basis points. read more