Finance profits back on track 02 September 2010 4:23PM Yesterday's national accounts provide another view of the profits of the financial sector, and which, after the interregnum created by the credit shock, are back on track. read more
iCash ATMs stand silent 02 September 2010 4:22PM ATMs operated by iCash Payments are handling only a dozen or so transactions a day, commentary published along with the company's full-year profit, released yesterday, shows. read more
A financial fiasco made in New Zealand 01 September 2010 4:55PM The wholesale help from New Zealand's government for the failed carcass of South Canterbury Finance will, all must hope, prove some sort of end point to a wholly home-grown financial crisis. read more
Business lending still on the slide 01 September 2010 4:52PM Business lending may be in decline but one lender to business is keen to highlight that its market share is on the rise. National Australia Bank, in an email from corporate affairs yesterday, pointe.. read more
NAB keeps merchants waiting 01 September 2010 4:50PM National Australia Bank yesterday left merchant customers struggling to reconcile Sunday and Monday payments. read more
PNCS restores margin 01 September 2010 4:49PM Police & Nurses Credit Society put its margins back in order over the last year and reported a 140 per cent rise in profit from 2009. PNCS made a net profit of $23.1 million for the year, and a.. read more
More props, not much more time for South Canterbury 31 August 2010 4:36PM South Canterbury Finance looks likely to announce a reorganisation this morning that may take the form of a long anticipated "good bank, bad bank" solution. read more
Bank profits not so super 30 August 2010 3:56PM Bank profits in Australia fell five per cent to $17.5 billion in the year to March 2010, the latest overview of the financial performance of the sector published by APRA shows. read more
Debut dividend for Customers 27 August 2010 4:15PM ATM operator Customers Limited yesterday declared its debut dividend of eight cents a share, one of the fruits of the shift in the fee regime that applies to the use of automatic teller machines. read more
Cabcharge losing market share 27 August 2010 4:14PM The emergence of alternative payment mechanisms for the taxi industry may be chipping away at the turnover and profits of Cabcharge, the firm that once held a stranglehold on this service. read more