Comment

• Ian Rogers

Comment: Each takeover of a smaller rival proposed by a big Australian bank has won clearance from competition authorities over the last 35 years. Every single one. read more

• Ian Rogers

Comment: In the disgraceful Australian catalogue of bank takeovers, one overlooked old ANZ favourite bears a review. read more

• Ian Rogers

NAB is humming, so look past the market reaction yesterday to NAB’s lower-than-expected NIM for the March 2023 half year. read more

• Ian Rogers

There is very little creative thinking going on as a predictable debate muddles along over regional branch closures. read more

• Ian Rogers

The RBA review confirms what many have long suspected: there is not much governance actually going on at the Reserve Bank, not on the part of the bank's board anyway. read more

• Ian Rogers

The outcome of the review into the Reserve Bank of Australia by no means represents an overhaul, and is not even all that material. read more

• George Lekakis

The miserable level of consumer protection offered by existing privacy laws and the federal privacy commissioner has been on display in the last month as Latitude Financial released threadbare details.. read more

• George Lekakis

Opinion:   The failure of BNK Banking Corporation to submit aggregated asset and liability data to APRA for the February 2023 reporting period looms as a potentially significant incident for the Perth.. read more

• George Lekakis

Opinion: National Australia Bank’s miserable effort at making payments cheaper for small businesses highlights how the bank seems predisposed to smothering its large merchants with the best deals whil.. read more

• Ian Rogers

I write to express my heartfelt thanks to the Austin Hospital ED team and paramedics for the wonderful care I received twice in three days last week.   read more

• Ian Rogers

If I worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia or RBNZ I’d be asking for a 20 per cent pay rise.  read more

• George Lekakis

In the absence of effective jawboning from national leaders - the Treasurer Jim Chalmers in particular - the major banks are acting against the interests of Australian households with savings. read more

• John Kavanagh

The Statutory Review of the Consumer Data Right, recommends that screen scraping be banned, as a way of prompting a more widespread transition to the CDR. read more

• Ian Rogers

All their ballyhoo and posturing by fintechs about reinventing payments and banking done properly ultimately leads to one place.  read more

• Ian Rogers

The recession will be localised, severe and then it will spread. read more

• Ian Rogers

Leadership of the industry on recognising past wrongs done in the name of imperialism has been left to NAB. read more

• John Kavanagh

Westpac chief executive Peter King has provided a wholly inadequate response to Promontory Australia’s decision to change the status of the bank’s CORE program from “green” to “amber” following its re.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Zip has to be perilously, incredibly close to a breach of its covenants with NAB, and thus receivership looms. read more

• Ian Rogers

Comment: The numbers are going to be big. Bigger than now.   A trillion plus debt racing for $10 trillion.  read more

• Ian Rogers

Employment and underemployment and even a touch of scandal will be front and centre of the mooted review into the Reserve Bank of Australia. If it happens.   read more