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Low interest rates provide the potential for rapid house price gains to continue, although other factors will press in the opposite direction, according to Deloitte's Access Economics team. read more

Revitalised non-bank lender DirectMoney, operating in what the firm called the "marketplace lending industry" in Australia, is following a well-worn path to the ASX via a simple "reverse listing" tr.. read more

The chair of the Financial Services Inquiry, David Murray, has kept the debate simmering over the adequacy of how bank capital is measured. read more

Yesterday, in a webcast and subsequent Q&A session, regional and country specialists on the financial sector from Standard & Poor's Ratings Service outlined their Asia-Pacific Banking Outlook.. read more

The allegations of straight-out bribery of key executives at Commonwealth Bank by a desperate technology provider, if proven, take governance shortcomings at CBA to a new low. read more

Former senior Commonwealth Bank technology executive Keith Hunter appeared in a Sydney court yesterday charged with accepting bribes to ensure a multimillion dollar cloud computing contract went to Si.. read more

Ratings agency Standard & Poor's believes that Australia is likely to remain one of the lowest-risk banking systems among the 85 that have Standard & Poor's banking industry country risk asses.. read more

Moody's Investors Service has taken multiple rating actions following the publication yesterday of its new bank rating methodology. None of these changes will affect Australian banks in the near term. read more

Yesterday, The Treasury released draft legislation that it said was intended to modernise the Commonwealth's Offshore Banking Unit regime. read more

Graeme Samuel, former chair of the ACCC, observed that the financial sector was one where "we layer protection upon protection upon protection" in a way not seen in almost any other industry in Austra.. read more