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Credit quality improved at Westpac over the December 2013 quarter, a period in which the bank reweighted its business mix toward commercial loans. read more

A quarter of pregnant women working in the finance industry "believed that they had been discriminated against," the Finance Sector Union has found. read more

Disciplined loan pricing and more flexibility on the funding side underscored a steady rather than stellar December half year for Bendigo and Adelaide Bank. read more

Farm finance will be cheaper and more readily available soon for troubled producers, with the Australian Government planning to widen the existing cheap farm loan scheme introduced by the former Lab.. read more

The Financial System Inquiry would explore the extent to which stability objectives hinder competition, inquiry chair David Murray, said in a talk to the Committee for Economic Development of Australi.. read more

Three years after National Australia Bank launched its marketing differentiator under the rubric of a "break up" with the big banks, how is the strategy going? Superficially, very well, although a clo.. read more

Commonwealth Bank produced a fresh performance of the comedy that is the banking sector's self-assessment of its "cash profit" yesterday. The bank opted to omit an infamous bad debt expense from its.. read more

Bankwest has ceased to be a millstone for Commonwealth Bank and is now producing a credible profit, with much of the past strife with asset quality now resolved. read more

Commonwealth Bank took an indirect shot at APRA's approach to measuring bank capital adequacy yesterday, arguing that on alternative measures used offshore the bank's capital base was among the high.. read more

The Australian banking industry remains "somewhat more exposed to funding and liquidity risks compared with some other highly-rated systems", credit rating agency Standard & Poor's said yesterda.. read more