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• Ian Rogers

Bank branches “remain in demand” the 2025 Consumer Banking Report from Accenture shows. read more

• Ian Rogers

The Full Court of the Federal Court has upheld an earlier ruling that Sunshine Loans, a provider of small amount credit contracts, charged prohibited fees over a four-year period. read more

• Ian Rogers

Banks and financial services firms will need to maintain and publish a dashboard on Reportable Situations and Internal Dispute Resolution data – as soon as the second half of 2025. read more

• Ian Rogers

Personal loan arrears jumped by over 6% across all age-groups over 2024, iliion said in their March Consumer Stress Barometer. read more

• Ian Rogers

The superannuation sector is calling for policy makers to reconsider relying on the New Payments Platform for Payday Super from next year, and instead extending the use of BECS for Payday Super. read more

Management of the risk function is, or was, a mess within ANZ’s Global Markets business. Many risk managers actively participate in daily risk management activities, leading some Markets staff to perc.. read more

• Ian Rogers

A group of 19 regional and rural mutual banks are ramping up a campaign for major banks to made subject to a levy that would be funnelled to smaller banks to subsidise the cost of their atypically lar.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Shortcomings in ANZ’s Global Markets leadership with regard to the importance and ownership of non-financial risk management (including conduct risk) resulted in a lack of effective embedding of thes.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Zip Co say they will lodge an application for special leave to appeal to the High Court of Australia following an adverse ruling on appeal in the Federal Court over the ownership of the trademark ZIP. read more

• Ian Rogers

Zip Co’s Australian business is facing a period of turbulence, following an unreported decision by the Full Court of the Federal Court to issue injunctions that restrain Zip Co subsidiaries from using.. read more

• Ian Rogers

Nuno Matos, the incoming chief executive of ANZ, will be starting earlier than planned. read more

• Ian Rogers

An incoming Coalition government will direct APRA to lower the serviceability buffer on new home loans. read more

• Ian Rogers

Attaining a net promoter score ranking of number one by 2029 in both consumer banking and business banking is the declared aim of new Westpac CEO Anthony Miller.  read more

• Ian Rogers

The ABA has come out forcefully for a rethink on years of endeavour to foster competition in e-conveyancing, effectively endorsing the consolidation of the PEXA monopoly. read more

• Ian Rogers

ASIC staffing will increase by 17 per cent, last night’s budget papers show. read more

• Ian Rogers

Bermuda-based insurer Arch appears to be the party engaged in exclusive talks with Commonwealth Bank over replacing Helia as sole provider of lenders mortgage insurance. read more

• Ian Rogers

Extraordinary.  Bank Australia seems to be walking back its vision of being ‘Australia’s most trusted bank’. read more

• 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