Challenger a shambles in banking

What a peculiar legacy Challenger leaves in the banking landscape. Too eccentric and unlikely to be true was our take on it from early on. These things never work out in banking, or rarely, so why eve.. read more

Avenue misses its licence moment

Are the mob and the money behind Avenue Bank up to the mark? You don’t miss your two-year deadline to move up from RADI to a full banking licence. You get on with it and joust with the great whites of.. read more

The pain in CBA

As the bank treads water rather than growing fast, you have to wonder what the Commonwealth Bank result for the June 2023 full year tells you about coordination in Australian banking.  read more

Comyn a $10m man

The board of Commonwealth Bank may dislike the way things are going at the bank.   read more

'No disruption' of oligopoly for years: ACCC

Suncorp “still has incentives” to pursue a merger of its banking arm with Bendigo and Adelaide Bank in the event ANZ’s proposed acquisition of Suncorp Bank does not proceed, the ACCC has concluded. read more