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Monthly lending finance for personal, commercial, housing and lease finance commitments have been published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and renovation loans have hit a seven year high. read more

The Australian Finance Group's Mortgage Index for the final quarter of the 2016/17 financial year shows the non-majors' share of the market is now at 35 per cent. read more

AUSTRAC released Australia's first risk assessment of the securities and derivatives sector yesterday, rating the risk of criminal exploitation for the sector at the "high end of 'medium'". read more

Loans with three and five-year tenors made up almost half (48 per cent) of all the loan volume in Asia Pacific (ex-Japan), according to the latest APAC league table. Facilities with a three-year tenor.. read more

European banks and payment service providers are reinventing their business and technology strategies; a senior Xero executive believes there is enough expertise in Australia around data management to.. read more

Sail Business Loans co-founder and CEO Yanir Yakutiel is confident he has a business model that works. With early round funding secured from wealthy family offices, and insto investors ready to b.. read more

Two of Australia's major banks are among a group of global banks testing SWIFT's new blockchain application, aimed at reconciling international nostro accounts in real time. read more

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal has agreed that changing the name of a crowd-sourced funding platform to Bankrolla is unlikely to mislead investors into believing it is a bank. read more

The Australian National Accounts from the ABS for the quarter to March 2017, covering finance and wealth measures indicates volatility in borrowing and lending has declined. read more

For most companies and businesses, the use of the words 'innovative' or 'innovation' have become just standard marketing practice. That critique cannot be levelled at the Scandinavian fintech, Klarna,.. read more