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Pricing levers at the disposal of Westpac's management, combined with improvements in market share, have led Morgan Stanley's bank equity research team to refresh its "overweight" rating on Westpac. read more

Fat surcharges on credit card payments may remain a feature of the payments landscape under revised rules released yesterday by the Reserve Bank of Australia. read more

GE Capital's CEO, Skander Malcolm, is leaving the business to work in the health care division of General Electric. read more

Investment in new business lines and a conservative approach to provisioning retarded profit growth for specialist financier Thorn Group in the year to September 2012. read more

Conditions may be improving for business credit demand, if a Veda survey of the views of corporate credit mangers is any guide. read more

Several of the senior executive team at National Australia Bank saw their bonuses cut for the second year in a row in 2012, the bank's annual report reveals. read more

ANZ paid higher bonuses to its senior executives in 2012, in line with the bank's rise in profit for the year. read more

ANZ may be smarting at its slide down the ranks of "satisfied" customers as measured by market research firms. read more

Mutual credit unions and building societies appear to be knocking back merger proposals from Bundaberg-based Wide Bay. read more

Changes in the operational risk profiles of banks, due to outsourcing and offshoring, have emerged as another risk factor adding to the capital burden of banks. read more