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National Australia Bank is cutting the number of business bankers on its payroll and steering customers towards call centres for help instead. read more

Cabcharge provided an outline of its views yesterday - and what might be the basis of future legal action - over forthcoming curbs on credit card surcharging. read more

ANZ has provided some extra glimpses of financial data on its Asian business, releasing the second instalment of a presentation provided to investment analysts last week. read more

Treasury is pressing the Australian government to acknowledge that there may be no further financial support for niche lenders in the form of investment in mortgage-backed securities. read more

The Payments System Board hopes to steer the banking industry towards a consensus on a new investment program that will deliver real-time payments, improved remittance data, a new numbering system a.. read more

The multiplying challenges of managing ANZ's ambitions for expansion in Asia were sketched out in a presentation yesterday. read more

Bank of Queensland took the lead once again on home loan pricing yesterday, with the bank electing to cuts its standard variable home-loan rate by 20 basis points. read more

Foreign bank loans to Australia fell by US$32 billion in the December 2011 quarter, unwinding the net increase in foreign bank lending over the preceding nine months of last year, BIS data shows. read more

Moody's Investors Service downgraded the long-term debt rating of Arab Bank Australia Limited to Baa3 from Baa2. read more

The 2011 annual report on NBNK Investments casts further light on the state of the negotiations - since abandoned - between NBNK and National Australia Bank over the purchase of Clydesdale Bank, in.. read more