25 bps cut the norm 09 December 2011 6:07PM No major bank is giving other lenders room to limit home-loan rate cuts, with National Australia Bank believed to have resolved to reduce the delivery rate to its third-party mortgage managers by 25.. read more
Review: 'Still Walking' by Bill Moss 09 December 2011 5:56PM Insider histories of Australian banks are rare. It's more than ten years since the only contemporary account by anyone working in the industry was published. But Still Walking, the just published mem.. read more
Minnows cut home loan rates 08 December 2011 6:01PM Four credit unions and three mortgage managers have cut some or all of their variable-rate home loans by 25 basis points, in the line with the cut in the RBA cash rate announced this week. read more
Analysis: New pricing model needed for home loans 08 December 2011 5:59PM As big banks wear another day of criticism over their inertia in reducing interest rates on home loans, in line with the RBA rate cut this week, perhaps it's time industry forces took more active st.. read more
Finance profits on track 08 December 2011 5:58PM Financial corporations in Australia, including banks, generated A$68 billion in profits in the year to September 2011, 18 per cent of all profits earned by all trading corporations over the last yea.. read more
Bendigo elevated on S&P scale 08 December 2011 5:55PM Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has published revised ratings on five more Australian banks, three in New Zealand and one in Papua New Guinea. read more
Low growth lenders willing to cut rates 07 December 2011 5:43PM While the major banks are keeping their customers, and each other, wondering about their approach to repricing assets and liabilities in the wake of yesterday's cut of 25 basis points in Australia's.. read more
Sour funding markets help cut in cash rate 07 December 2011 5:40PM Difficult funding conditions for banks in Europe and elsewhere featured in the rationale published yesterday by the Reserve Bank of Australia to explain the cut in the cash rate by 25 basis points,.. read more
MyATM in administration 07 December 2011 5:37PM The directors of MyATM finally called in administrators yesterday. Stephen Duncan of KordaMentha will undertake the administrative task. read more
IMF seeks High Court help on fees fight 06 December 2011 6:00PM ANZ has prevailed over its opponents in a preliminary Federal Court ruling on the legal issues at stake in a test case over alleged overcharging of penalty fees. read more