Stress tests still benign 10 June 2010 4:40PM Banks in Australia would continue to meet minimum capital ratios in the face of a severe economic downturn, modelling by APRA and banks has found. read more
ANZ in a hurry 10 June 2010 4:39PM ANZ spelled out a few more targets for its Asian businesses in investor presentations yesterday, on the second day of a tour of north-east Asia. The overarching aspiration is for ANZ to be "a top th.. read more
Institutional lending driving Asian growth for ANZ 09 June 2010 4:53PM ANZ has set itself a goal of becoming "a four institutional bank in Asia", bank management disclosed in an investor presentation yesterday. read more
No benefit from RBS in 2010 09 June 2010 4:52PM The six regional banking businesses ANZ bought from Royal Bank of Scotland in Asia, and settled over the course of late last year and early this year, will make no impact on profit in 2010, ANZ disc.. read more
East coast rollout resumes for BankWest 09 June 2010 4:51PM They may be large, orange and seemingly always empty, but there is enough foot traffic, and sales, into the garish Bank of Western Australia branches to justify a revival of the branch rollout that.. read more
NAB's options narrow in Britain 07 June 2010 4:55PM National Australia Bank on Friday dropped out, or got kicked out, of the bidding for the 318 branches of Royal Bank of Scotland that are on the market. Reuters reported NAB's exit from the bidding o.. read more
NAB rescues TierOne depositors 07 June 2010 4:54PM National Australia Bank rescued the customers of a US banking tiddler at the end of last week. Through Great Western Bank, NAB took control of TierOne Bank, which trades in the US states of Nebraska.. read more
Two-year-old merger in the news 04 June 2010 4:37PM Some modern banking history receives an airing in The Australian today. ANZ and National Australia Bank, over the early months of 2008, negotiated the principles for a merger between the two banks b.. read more
Still unreported: big bank solvency in the crash of 2008 04 June 2010 4:36PM With one piece of merger gossip from 2008 now on the public record, that leaves one task of naming and shaming from that year to complete. read more
Billion dollar milestone at ME Bank 01 June 2010 5:05PM ME Bank is kicking a few goals in its quest to develop the deposit side of its business, and a key strategic goal for a bank that until the credit crunch was more or less wholly dependent on wholesa.. read more