Retail Investors

• Ian Rogers

Pre-payments by banks ahead of the repayment deadline for the Term Funding Facility have been flowing through, with $30 billion repaid over the last 10 weeks. There is another $65 billion to go. read more

• John Kavanagh

AMP is committing $300 million in seed funding to its Alternative Debt Fund. read more

• John Kavanagh

Crooks behind fake term deposits scams and dodgy bond investments have upped their game, and consumers need to be even more wary. read more

• George Lekakis

TechStacked, the company formerly known as Xinja Bank, has suffered a major blow to its hopes of becoming an investment platform provider. read more

• John Kavanagh

Foreign exchange company OFX suffered a heavy COVID-related fall in its consumer business last year but its corporate business held up well. read more

• John Kavanagh

Australian Unity’s mutual capital instrument, the first security of its kind, has been a hit with investors, trading at a premium to its issue price since listing on the ASX last month. read more

• John Kavanagh

As more details of the government’s proposed changes to foreign investment rules become available, it has emerged that lenders will be affected by the reforms. read more

• John Kavanagh

Australia’s newest investment bank, Barrenjoey Capital Partners, launched yesterday. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Another legal battle over damage inflicted on conservative investors who were unwittingly lured into high risk investments is nearing an end in the Federal Court. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

A business model for yet another fintech style operation, aimed at stealing a few more pieces of the banking sector's lunch, is being developed by an ex-Goldman Sachs banker. read more

• Banking Day staff

ING launches its first insurance product, while NAB sheds 80 per cent of its life insurance business and La Trobe launches an online investment platform. read more

• Banking Day staff

CBA has paid A$180,000 in infringement notices for breaching responsible lending rules when selling personal overdrafts, and the latest Consumer Sentiment survey results show savers are risk-averse. read more

• John Kavanagh

One segment of the debt market that has not received a boost from low rates is margin lending. The number of margin loan accounts fell by 2.8 per cent in the June 2016 quarter and is down almost fiv.. read more

• John Kavanagh

Yellow Brick Road's announcement yesterday that it was reducing its headcount, cutting costs and moving to a franchise distribution model is an overdue acknowledgement that the company's strategy of g.. read more

• John Kavanagh

Australian Unity Investments is reviving its mortgage investments business, switching from its traditional pooled fund approach to a "contributory" model. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Crowdfunding property investment company Domacom and peer-to-peer lender ThinCats Australia are to set up a partnership in order to share lending and borrowing opportunities. read more

• Banking Day staff

ANZ has confirmed that it may sell its online broking business, ANZ Share Investing. read more

• Bernard Kellerman

Class, a provider of cloud-based self-managed super fund administration software, has signed off on integration with RateSetter, provider of peer-to-peer lending to retail investors and SMSFs. read more

• Ian Rogers

The vulnerability of a casualised workforce is one risk highlighted in an analysis of banks' sensitivities to shocks and pressure on credit profiles circulated by Moody's Investors Service yester.. read more

• John Kavanagh

Timbercorp Finance liquidator Korda Mentha has failed in a bid for a court ruling that investors who borrowed from the group to invest in its agribusiness schemes cannot defend proceedings for recover.. read more