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• Ian Rogers

The Labor government is yielding to the lobbying and the antics of the crypto crowd, and even flying in the face off its own efforts to combat scams. read more

• Ian Rogers

The Bulk Electronic Clearing System should not be closed until “a ubiquitous batch service is available for all payments." read more

• Ian Rogers

Still growing above system, Qudos Bank is on track for its merger with Bank Australia, scheduled for 1 July 2025. read more

• Ian Rogers

APRA says it is reviewing the thresholds used to distinguish between significant financial institutions and non-significant financial institutions “that benefit from simpler and lower requirements in.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Andrew Irvine, NAB CEO, yesterday announced a raft of executive changes. read more

• Ian Rogers

ANZ has made a (secret) deal with the Australian government not to sell its Pacific operations to a Chinese bank. read more

• Ian Rogers

APRA on Friday cautioned that mutual banks had better hike their investment spend on a number of fronts. read more

• Ian Rogers

Bankwest’s home loan satisfaction has crashed following its decision to close all branches. read more

• Ian Rogers

Fresh from the completion, last Friday, of its merger with G&C Mutual Bank, Unity Bank is scouting around for smaller mutual ADIs to further bolster its scale. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

The Australian banking sector is coming under increased political scrutiny, with the government pushing for greater alignment with public demands. read more

• Ian Rogers

AFCA has welcomed a federal government decision that will enable it to consider the actions of “receiving banks” in scam complaints. read more

• Ian Rogers

Batch payment processing might have an enduring place in Australia’s payments mix, amid hesitancy by the Reserve Bank to embrace the industry’s plans to migrate away from the established system for di.. read more

• Banking Day staff

Recently digitised records reveal how Commonwealth Bank intended to become a mega bank by dismantling its competitors. read more

• Ian Rogers

Return on Tangible Equity will become a focus of Macquarie Group reporting. read more

• Ian Rogers

A report detailing the findings and recommendations of the RBA’s risk assessment on the transition away from the Bulk Electronic Clearing System will be published later in March, the Payments System B.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Payments gateways are the focus of a new RBA campaign to promote widespread adoption of least-cost routing. read more

• Ian Rogers

Keeping Armaguard in business looks like being a supremely costly exercise for the major banks and the other ‘funding parties’ that bailed the firm out nine months ago. read more

• Ian Rogers

Credit card arrears of SME owners in the most troubled industry sectors have doubled since December 2023. read more

• Ian Rogers

There is a goldmine of bank-specific granular data on incomes in the 2025 Employer Gender Pay Gaps report from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency. read more

• Ian Rogers

Andrew Irvine, the CEO of National Australia Bank, has sold a parcel of shares he held in the bank to a value of around $1.1 million. read more