Global banks need more revenue, not cost cutting 22 January 2015 4:55PM The latest edition of the EY report, "Global banking outlook 2015: transforming banking for the next generation", looks further ahead than usual short-term thinking, setting out what the advisory firm.. read more
AUSTRAC pings MoneyGram over unregistered remitters 22 January 2015 4:54PM One of the world's largest remittance network providers, MoneyGram Payment Systems, has been fined A$122,400 for contraventions of Australia's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing law.. read more
Briefs: Appointments for ANZ, SWIFT, IpsomPrime and others 22 January 2015 4:52PM Sean Birchley, ANZ's general manager of corporate and commercial banking for Queensland and the Northern Territory, will add international and institutional banking to his state-based responsibilities.. read more
Banks edge towards carbon finance disclosure 19 December 2014 4:54PM Following the final two AGMs for Australia's Big Four banks, the Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility has congratulated the banks on what it said was improved disclosure as to how much car.. read more
RBA reshapes payment card access regimes 19 December 2014 4:53PM The Reserve Bank has varied the access regimes for the MasterCard and Visa credit card systems and revoked the access regime for the Visa Debit system. read more
NAB the big business satisfaction improver in 2014 19 December 2014 4:50PM As 2014 comes to an end, NAB has made up ground on its Big Four rivals in terms of satisfaction among its all-important business customers, according to DBM Consultants' final Business Financial Servi.. read more
Closing money remitters' accounts equals financial exclusion 18 December 2014 5:19PM The remittance industry provides international money transfer services for migrant workers and others looking to send relatively small amounts of money overseas, but is under threat of "unintended con.. read more
RMBS market looking sound for 2015: Fitch 18 December 2014 5:15PM In a report published yesterday, Fitch Ratings said it expected the ratings and asset performance of Asia-Pacific structured finance transactions - a sector dominated by Australian transactions - to r.. read more
ASIC to track financial attitudes and behaviour 18 December 2014 5:11PM ASIC has released a new piece of research exploring key financial attitudes and behaviours of Australian consumers and investors. The agency said its Australian Financial Attitudes and Behaviour Track.. read more
BOQ proves wife knew full effects of guarantee 18 December 2014 5:09PM Justice David Jackson, in the Supreme Court of Queensland, has dismissed a claim of "special disadvantage" by a wife who guaranteed several Bank of Queensland loans - including one for $773,000 that w.. read more