APRA may resolve dividend distraction

Dividend seekers will be pinning their hopes on a more accommodating policy on capital management from APRA next week, but don’t look for any rush on the part of sell-side banking analysts to restore.. read more

Credit wanderers count on liquidity

The supply of business credit “appeared to have tightened,” the Reserve Bank of Australia curtly declared in the minutes of its Monetary Policy Meeting two weeks ago. read more

LoanSleeper widened as income support cut

Philip Lowe and Josh Frydenberg will take it in turns today to reframe the macroeconomic narrative in Australia. Yesterday’s nugget: the underwhelming SME Guarantee Scheme for business lending has bee.. read more

Roberts deposit bill astray

A sharp view against the One Nation bill seeking to prohibit the unlikely and entertain wingnuts has landed from a former key bank adviser, Nicholas Hossack. read more

TFF misses business lending target

The RBA’s $90 billion Term Funding Facility, intended to support business credit, seems to be missing the mark. “SMEs generally aren’t looking for credit,” industry analyst Neil Slonim says. And use o.. read more

Trillions of dud loans

The worldwide assault on bank profits will exceed US$2.1 trillion over 2020 and 2021, S&P Global Ratings concludes in a lengthy assessment of the COVID-19 pandemic and its “large and long-lasting.. read more

Back to front in CCR

Once at the forefront, neobanks and fintechs are nowhere to be seen in the world of consumer credit reporting. ARCA have shared rare insight into the composition of the consumer credit market. OTOH ha.. read more

Suncorp, Colonial fenced over MySuper

Sixteen months after being tasked to do so, APRA has disposed of three of the 12 cases that Kenneth Hayne referred to the regulator for further investigation in the banking royal commission’s final re.. read more