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One corner of the banking industry making strides to cut costs is SWIFT, the international banking cooperative that provides messaging services for many bank transfers. read more

The Rock Building Society is looking to mutual financial institutions as future merger partners, and appears to be looking for an alternative to acceding to any future offer from a buyer such as Ban.. read more

Some critical, and banking-related, topics are missing from the Treasury briefing for the incoming minority Labor government, published on Friday. read more

The co-branded credit card of David Jones will receive a "relaunch" next month, management of the retail chain said at an investor presentation yesterday. read more

One of the smallest of Australia's approved deposit-taking institutions pulled stumps yesterday. Armidale Building Society agreed to merge with Greater Building Society, adding a couple of branches.. read more

Four months after litigation funder IMF (Australia), its associate Financial Redress and Melbourne Labor law firm Maurice Blackburn whipped up a media frenzy over a planned class action against bank.. read more

Mirvac, a lesser property developer, yesterday joined an unusual short list, taking fourth place in an interesting queue of vendors of own-name term loans in the capital market over the last week or.. read more

Will banks in Australia support their quarter-century-old Eftpos network with more than rhetoric? And invest once more in this most popular of payments services? Maybe and maybe. read more

A shift is under way in the planning for the continuing merger of St George Bank with Westpac, with the IT pathway toward developing  a new core banking system  up for review - especially.. read more

Westpac, like many banks, finds it tough to escape the restrictive muscles of a model that, let's face it, regards computing power as costly and messages as requiring truncation. Above all, processe.. read more