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The combined profitability of the nine banks counted by APRA as "other" - meaning the three regional banks and six specialist banks - fell more heavily in 2008 than for any other sub-group of banks. read more

Bank profits declined in Australia over the course of calendar 2008, according to APRA's industry performance data for 2008. read more

NAB understated the apparent purchase price of $885 million for Aviva Australia by around $60 million. read more

Glad to be out of here was one Aviva theme of the day. read more

An analysis of bank funding costs and pricing practices by the Reserve Bank of Australia confirms that banks have managed profit margins effectively over the course of the credit crunch and subsequent.. read more

Yesterday's paper on bank interest margins by the Reserve Bank of Australia also sheds a little more light on the deposit mix of banks. read more

Users of automatic teller machines are already starting to drift back to old habits after only the second month of better publicised and slightly changed pricing. read more

The Senate last night voted to reject enabling legislation for the proposed Australian Business Investment Partnership, potentially reducing the pool of capital available to the commercial property se.. read more

A  Standard Chartered officer type and a Malaysian banker looking for wider horizons were two executive hires mentioned by ANZ in a media release yesterday. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank will buff its 2009 full year profit after cashing in a $24.6 million holding in Customers Limited on Tuesday. Customers is one of two independent deployers of automatic telle.. read more