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One issue that has not, yet, emerged to test the Australian government backed funding vehicle for car and truck dealers is the fate of those dealers that the "participating" financiers consider as not.. read more

So-called foreign ATM fees charged by banks may live on even as "reform" of the charging arrangements for the automatic teller machine sector kicks in from early March. read more

ANZ may finally be setting up a serious expansion into Indonesia's banking market with the purchase of an additional eight per cent stake in PT Bank Pan Indonesia. read more

AIMS Home Loans is one niche lender earning a tidy return for its shareholders. The Sydney-based mortgage manager, which raised fresh wholesale funding shortly before debt markets turned sour in mid 2.. read more

Linfox, the largest shareholder in Bank of Queensland, continues to sell more of its stake in the bank. read more

The number of personal insolvencies fell for the second quarter in a row during the December 2008 quarter. read more

There is fresh talk of the Australian government co-investing in syndicated loans of Australian companies through a special purpose vehicle. Banks would invest alongside the government. read more

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank agreed to pay a small premium of $52 million, and paid in short dated, converting preference shares, to buy the investment lending business of Macquarie Bank. read more

Margin lending looks to have fallen by rather more than the decline in the value of the Australian equities market over the course of 2008, though the crook stock market may not have scared customers.. read more

In explaining the agreement for Macquarie to sell its margin lending business to Bendigo and Adelaide Bank yesterday both banks took time to highlight recent deposit flows. read more