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Homeloans Limited will pay a large percentage of its second-half profit as dividend and management aims to maintain a high payout ratio. read more

Rubik Financial may have published financial statements on the last possible day of profit reporting, but it also produced one of the more interesting, simply by taking the trouble to try to explain t.. read more

Ford Credit in Australia may finally get to lighten the funding load on its US parent and source replacement funding from Australian banks, with the activation, after long delays, of the OzCar Trust. read more

Commonwealth Bank increased the scale of its planned hybrid capital raising to $900 million from $700 million. The bank published the prospectus for the sale of the "PERLS V" hybrid securities on Frid.. read more

GBST incurred a loss of $700,000 on revenues of $1.3 million from its effort to break into the market for the supply of comparative data on banking products, financial statements for the year to June.. read more

While banks may be faring pretty well two years into the credit crunch providers of information services on banking may not be trading so well. read more

Cash may be making a minor comeback, at least when it comes to paying a taxi fare and the alternative is a ten per loading on the metered fare. read more

A threatened cut in the level of interchange fees paid on credit card transactions, to an average of 30 basis points, won't be introduced for the time being, the Payments System Board said yesterday. read more

Bank of Western Australia's problem loans worsened over the June 2009 quarter, and by a greater degree than for any other bank whose quarterly "pillar 3" report this newsletter's revised so far. read more

Bad loans stabilised at Macquarie Bank over the June 2009 quarter, the bank's "pillar 3" disclosure published yesterday shows. read more