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Tepid income growth and the inevitability of a return at some point to higher (and more typical) levels of interest rates are among the darker thoughts informing the more assertive actions on Australi.. read more

Bigger banks are riding the recent wave of demand for housing credit. read more

The corollary to a pay rise of four per cent for many staff at National Australia Bank should proceed following a staff vote. read more

Queries over asset quality in banking must be mounting, as evidence builds of a decided drift in the level of problem loans. read more

Western Australian ADI minnow Goldfields Money will work to a thinner target for its capital base, the firm explained on Friday. read more

In business, the powerful prey on the weak. In banking, the oligopoly feasts on the cowering sector that is challenger mutual ADIs such as credit unions. read more

The credit quality story at ANZ in the June quarter may be more nuanced than implied in an outline used by the bank to support its capital raising last week. read more

Commonwealth Bank may be holding onto its mantle as the best performing bank by return on equity, but the board of directors could be pushing for a more savvy performance yet from senior managers. read more

The credit quality story may not be straightforward in Australian banking, if markers of stress in Westpac's banking book are anything to go by. read more

Weekly pay packets are bounding along in the finance and insurance sector, with a rate of growth over the last year more than three times and a half times the average rise for the wider workforce. read more