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In a wrap-up of securitisation trends around the world, Vera Chaplin, managing director of Asia Pacific Structured Finance Ratings for Standard & Poor's,  noted that: "European policymakers a.. read more

Moody's Investors Service has assigned provisional ratings to A$200 million in notes to be issued by Liberty Funding Pty Ltd. The transaction will be called (in its shorter format) Liberty Series 2015.. read more

Fitch's latest Dinkum ABS Index, measuring the performance of Australian car loan and leasing securitisations up to the end of the September 2015 quarter, showed that the annualised net loss rate fell.. read more

In its latest series of housing market analyses, Fitch Ratings has concluded Australian banks' tightening of mortgage underwriting in 2015 was "largely due" to regulatory intervention. read more

The Australian economy, seen as more interdependent with the local banking sector than most other advanced economies, remains in good shape, according to Standard & Poor's latest Banking Industry.. read more

PayPal has announced it will take up eftpos membership, with plans to connect directly to the real time centralised payments infrastructure, the eftpos Hub, in 2016. read more

The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, holding an inquiry into the impairment of customer loans, sat in Brisbane late last week and shone the spotlight on a few inte.. read more

The best of the post-GFC fintech start-ups are starting to pull clear of the pack of also-rans; these leaders are the ones making real revenue, supporting employees and doing deals that matter with ma.. read more

The analysts at CoreLogic RP Data have provided a degree of validation for the new lending standards brought into play by APRA, starting from late 2014. read more

RBA Assistant Governor Guy Debelle spoke at a Bloomberg conference in Sydney yesterday on what he conceded was the "arcane" topic of benchmarks - specifically FX and interest rates. read more