Australian-Owned Bank

• Ian Rogers

Lyndon Kingston, the former CEO of Bananacoast Community Credit Union, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. read more

• Ian Rogers

Former director and CEO of Bananacoast Community Credit Union, Lyndon Kingston, has been found guilty of dishonest conduct. read more

• Ian Rogers

With cost-cutting front of mind, Teachers Mutual Bank will withdraw its Hiver brand from the market, and even look at closing branches. read more

• Ian Rogers

MyState’s offer for Auswide Bank are reasonable, corporate advisory firm Kroll has concluded. read more

• Ian Rogers

Retail banking profits at Bank of Queensland crashed over the year to August 2024, down to $88 million in cash earnings from $203 million in FY2023. read more

• Ian Rogers

AFCA has found in favour of a Bank of Queensland borrower in a protracted dispute centred on the bank’s responsible lending obligations. read more

• Ian Rogers

Growing at twice system, P&N Bank has costs under control and, for now, will be putting its failed effort to merge with Beyond Bank behind it. read more

• Ian Rogers

Was former Westpac and RAMS executive Jake Bromwich just too toxic as the future CEO of a merged P&N Bank and Beyond Bank? read more

• Ian Rogers

Taso Corolis has been appointed chief customer officer, consumer banking at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. read more

• Ian Rogers

With its ordinary shares no longer recognised by APRA towards capital, IMB’s board says it “remains committed to ... share buybacks.” read more

• Ian Rogers

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s Up brand has regained its mojo. read more

• Ian Rogers

Bank of Queensland will take control of owner-manager branches and turn them into corporate branches. And then close many of them. read more

• Ian Rogers

The union of MyState and Auswide is high conviction, high value and highly likely to work out for the best.  read more

• Ian Rogers

MyState Limited and Auswide Bank have reached agreement on a merger, the AFR’s Street Talk column reports. read more

• Ian Rogers

Service standards and turnaround times on home loan applications have blown out, badly, at People First Bank, at least for applications lodged via mortgage brokers.  read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Westpac has reversed long term customer churn among larger sized businesses. read more

• Ian Rogers

Richard Fennell will succeed Marnie Baker as managing director and CEO of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank from the end of August. read more

• Bernard Kellerman and Ian Rogers

The ANZ PR machine has forceful, via Bluenotes and national media, over the value the bank plans to deliver following the long-expected final approval – from the Treasurer, on Friday – for ANZ’s takeo.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Cost discipline is a characteristic too few mutual banks are known for, and nigh on impossible to deliver when boards are balancing pursuit of the greater goal of merging in the name of survival, with.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Any merger of Beyond Bank and Police & Nurses would create a mutual with close to $20 billion in assets, making it the fourth largest. The enlarged mutual bank will have around 450,000 members, wh.. read more