Bernard Kellerman

NAB has experienced a slight decline in the overall quality of its loan books in the first half of its 2025 financial year. read more

ASIC has imposed additional conditions on Macquarie Bank Limited’s Australian financial services licence after ASIC identified what it said were "significant compliance failures – some going undetecte.. read more

Reduced impairment charges reported by Westpac for loans to households and businesses reflect prudent lending practices and customer resilience, although Equifax has reported a wider slowdown in repay.. read more

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

The move towards phasing out BECS in favour of the New Payments Platform is gaining traction. The next steps in this process and how the industry will get there was the working thesis of a panel disc.. read more

Visa has mandated that Australian financial institutions provide their customers with safer and more advanced authentication options beyond SMS One-Time Passwords by October 2026. read more

Several new asset classes, including reverse mortgages, data centres and SME loans are emerging as a result of changing societal views and business pressures in the Australian economy. For these asset.. read more

Ways to support sustainability was a consistent theme for many of the sessions on Day 2 of the ASF 2024 conference in Sydney yesterday. However, as panellists explained, there is plenty more work to.. read more

Asset-backed securitisations have been on a steep issuance curve since markets were freed up post-Covid, and there is more to come.  read more

2024 has emerged as the strongest year for securitisation in over a decade, where strong investor demand has driven spreads lower despite high issuance. read more