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The Financial Stability Forum, a talking shop of international financial regulators, will be beefed up and renamed as the Financial Stability Board and its membership broadened as one of the decisions.. read more

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission raised no real objection to the proposed steering of customers of Wizard Home Loans to Aussie Home Loans under a controversial agreement in the dea.. read more

In one measure of the subdued demand in the debt capital market, banks finalised only US$5 billion in syndicated loans in Australia and New Zealand during the March 2009 quarter, down from US$21 billi.. read more

Commonwealth Bank may be the only bank affected by the last minute rush to transfer credit cards reward points to the Qantas frequent flyer program. read more

The drawn-out struggle between MasterCard Worldwide and the European Commission over the level of interchange fees on card-based payments in Europe has finally been resolved. read more

Financial aggregates for February 2009 confirm that owner-occupied lending remains the only growth sector of the credit market. read more

Macquarie Group aims to test the increasingly dubious stance of Deutsche Bank in a tussle over the funding of the airport link road project in Brisbane. read more

Westpac copped a warning from the Australian Communications and Media Authority over what the regulator described as prohibited telemarketing calls. read more

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority yesterday said in a media release that it and the Reserve Bank of Australia would join an enlarged governance body for the Basel Committee of the Bank fo.. read more

National Australia Bank paid $US20 million for the Colorado-based assets of First Community Bank through its subsidiary Great Western Bank, the US bank announced a week ago. read more