ANZ sells new 10-year sub debt to US investors

Fixed income investors were keen to get on board ANZ's latest sub debt deal in the US this week. Overnight Thursday, the bank raised US$800 million via a new issue of Basel III compliant Tier 2 10-yea.. read more

PwC survey eyes bank of the future

A global report prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, 'Retail Banking 2020: Evolution or Revolution', has found 55 per cent of senior retail bank executives believed non-traditional new players were a.. read more

Westpac liable for flawed SMSF strategy

A corporate executive turned local politician and his wife have been partly successful in their Supreme Court of Queensland action against Westpac after implementing a self-managed superannuation fund.. read more

Queensland banks endorsed by Moody's

Moody's Rating Service has its upgraded its long-term rating for Bank of Queensland to 'A3' from 'Baa1'. This decision follows Standard & Poor's upgrade of BOQ's long-term issuer credit rating to.. read more

SocietyOne has no peers

Reports earlier this week that the new Westpac-backed venture capital fund Reinventure Group had taken a million stake in peer-to-peer lender SocietyOne missed the point. Westpac was not buying into a.. read more

Business payments remain slow: D&B

The time taken by Australian businesses to pay each other has not improved over the past year, according to Dun & Bradstreet's latest trade payments report. On D&B's analysis, during Q4 2013 b.. read more

BOQ wins against former NSW owner managers

The Supreme Court of NSW yesterday dismissed claims made by 11 former New South Wales franchisees against the Bank of Queensland. The claims were for compensation for losses suffered as a result of th.. read more