BOQ bets all on ME Bank

Bank of Queensland is staking its future on a multi-brand strategy with confirmation yesterday of terms for a $1.325 billion all-cash offer from BOQ for ME Bank. read more

AFCA review open

Federal Treasury has announced a review of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority and provided the community with a rather short consultation document to kick off the consultation process. read more

Xinja carry-on continues

Polled on a voluntary winding-up and “return of whatever value is left to shareholders”, Xinja Bank’s owners resoundingly voted it down, almost all of them. read more

ME-ME derby in final straight

Three freaky banking industry exits in three weeks in Australia. And two more by the weekend's done, a fair chance. It's almost a rebirth of the Melbourne banking bust of April and May 1893, the rush.. read more

Bendigo profits from care and volume

Strategic discipline and cost discipline framed around the most successful fintech spend-up so far in Australian finance has lifted Bendigo and Adelaide Bank back into the good books. read more

Second vote likely on CBA pay dispute

The simmering dispute between Commonwealth Bank and the Finance Sector Union over the terms of a bank-wide pay rise may be put to a second, and digital, vote. The bank and the union are getting closer.. read more

Comment: No more golden buzzers from APRA

The prudential regulator will be shunning fintech auditions at the ‘APRA’s Got Talent’ theatre. How many more neobank or RADI or other licence wannabes will receive a green-light from Australia’s bank.. read more

Westpac caned over super rollover

Westpac lost hands down yesterday in the High Court, when the Court confirmed that Westpac Bank subsidiaries, Westpac Securities Administration Limited and BT Funds Management Limited breached financi.. read more

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