Professional services (325 items)

Genworth Financial Inc, the US parent of Genworth Mortgage Insurance Australia, is the target of a friendly takeover offer from China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. read more

Bank of Sydney has confirmed its full participation in the Australian Bankers Association's reform program, and an "insurtech" boom to follow the fintech revolution is predicted. read more

The first cross-border transaction between banks using multiple blockchain applications has taken place. read more

A court will scrutinise the actions of KordaMentha as receiver over a Queensland property development, amid claims of security property being sold well below value. read more

Organisations are invited to design hackathon challenges for the Payments Council, and a former Aussie Home Loans broker has been permanently banned. read more

NAB's outage woes continue, forcing another video apology from its chief customer officer. read more

National Australia Bank's banking system outage, which shut down services for more than a day last week and flared up again yesterday, was the result of human error at its IT systems partner IBM, according to a report. read more

ME Bank appoints a new board member, Findex is fined by ASIC over misleading claims, and Wells Fargo and ANZ Bank collaborate on a shared distributed ledger platform. read more

Forty-four per cent of Britons would stop using cash altogether if card payments were accepted everywhere, according to MasterCard research. read more

Two months after an Australian court ruled in favour of ANZ in a class action claim alleging unfair fees, ANZ has settled a similar lawsuit in New Zealand without admitting any liability. read more

A severe outage has NAB's customers and managers in a bind. On social media the bank admits double trouble: "We are working to process payments - hopefully your payment is received on time", paired with "I'm unable to give an answer on what will happen." read more