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Changing habits and resilient business models are testing the place of cash payments and the utility of a shrinking ATM fleet in the Australian payments landscape. read more

In a recession like no other, the aggregate value of ‘real-time gross settlements’ passing through Reserve Bank payments systems is looking crook. read more

It’s early closing – 1970s style – for Bank of Melbourne branches in Victoria. read more

Insolvencies concentrated in the leading edge industries of transport and construction will be ringing alarm bells for banks. On the consumer side there is some evidence – via Firstmac - that the stur.. read more

Credit cards and personal loans are one lending category in deep trouble in banking, the latest APRA overview of loan repayment deferrals due to COVID-19 shows. read more

A household saving ratio of around 20 per cent in the June quarter. No wonder AOFM chief Rob Nicholl is looking to the safety of cash, ‘but with a marginally better return’. read more

The broken state of the bond market was a surprise in Rob Nicholl’s AOFM update for the debt market yesterday. read more

The cost line will be the problem with the Commonwealth Bank profit in two weeks’ time, and CBA will be the biggest sell ever if they pay a final dividend. read more

The utility of the Term Funding Facility will come into focus over the two months this window remains opens, Christopher Kent, the RBA’s assistant governor for financial markets argued yesterday. read more

An unemployment rate of 8.75 per cent this time next year, and twice full employment target for Australia is one grim forecast in yesterday’s mini-budget. In June the ‘effective’ rate was 11 per cent. read more