Briefs: James Symond takes the reins at Aussie, National Mortgage Co and Australian First Mortgage m 17 March 2015 4:28PM More than six months after Ian Corfield quit the top job at Aussie Home Loans, the company has announced the appointment of James Symond as the new chief executive. read more
Overseas briefs: Banco de Madrid files for bankruptcy, SBI denies report it will reject Adani loan 17 March 2015 4:27PM Reports that State Bank of India was set to reject Adani Group's A$1billion loan application for its Australian coal project were "all gossip", bank chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya said. read more
Briefs: Deloitte appoints financial services tax partner 16 March 2015 4:43PM Deloitte has appointed Patrick Grob as a financial services tax partner. Grob, who is based in Brisbane, will also head Deloitte's tax management consulting practice. read more
New: Overseas briefs: Strong Apple Pay take-up in the US, RBS to shed 30,000 jobs 16 March 2015 4:40PM A survey showed almost half of all iPhone 6 users in the United States had tried Apple Pay and three-quarters of them had gone on to use the payment system to make repeat purchases. read more
Briefs: Crown Resorts mulls retail hybrid notes, ANZ's Smith relents on Basel 4, new P2P player, ban 13 March 2015 4:44PM Word has it that Crown Resorts is about to announce a new ASX listed hybrid note issue, with notes probably very similar in structure to those it issued in 2012. read more
Overseas news briefs: Bank in every China province, Indonesia looks to MOUs, Islamic mega-bank plan 13 March 2015 4:43PM The China Banking Regulatory Commission wants to run a pilot program that will establish one private bank in every province, reports Caixin. read more
Briefs: eftpos completes payments Hub, Solid Energy in debt talks, home loans arrears increase, West 12 March 2015 6:00PM Payment company eftpos has completed the build of its centralised payments hub and has connected five of ten direct connectors, including ANZ and, very recently, NAB. read more
Briefs: Bendigo Bank cuts credit card rates, broker pleads guilty to loan fraud, Google gets into th 11 March 2015 4:21PM Banks rarely cut their credit card rates, so it is worthy of note that Bendigo has lowered the rate on its Platinum card by 100 basis points to 18.99 per cent and cut the rate on its Basic Black card.. read more
Briefs: CBA board enlists IT expert, new Bartercard boss, BOQ launches RMBS, NAB correction, Westpac 10 March 2015 4:05PM Former Accenture executive Wendy Stops has joined the Commonwealth Bank board. read more
Briefs: Asian mobility, Philippines opens up and more 09 March 2015 4:06PM A study by consultancy McKinsey & Co shows that 700 million clients used online banking regularly in 13 Asian countries in 2014. read more