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It is apparent that Australian banks have mishandled the relationship with the corridors of power in Canberra. Not only is the proposed Bank Levy and suite of budget initiatives an [...]

A prominent theme this reporting season has been the surprising drop in first-quarter loan losses at all the big four banks. But can lenders continue to keep a lid on [...]

Australia New Zealand Banking Groups strategy of offloading assets and bolstering its capital will pick up in March with the sale of its 12 per cent stake in the Hong [...]

Although Australian banks are expensive, share prices will continue to rise given the tightness in bank registers and the expected steady flow of funds into big index, high dividend yield [...]

Bank executives came together at the RFi Group's Retail Banking Summit in June with the Sydney event hosting a number of international and local speakers. Discussion and debate centred around [...]

With research suggesting that over half of Gen Y consumers would prefer to apply for banking products via digital channels by the year 2020, speakers at the RFi Group Customer [...]

In a wide-ranging speech at an AB+F Randstad Leader's Lecture lunch held in Sydney recently, White told his audience that continuing to drive opportunities from the niche strategy BOQ had [...]

Australia's big four banks face a weakening in asset quality and a slowdown in earnings growth over the rest of 2016. That's the view of Moody's, who said more difficult [...]

Australia's big four lenders have unveiled an independent review of bank pay structures and have also promised to protect whistle-blowers and improve their treatment of customers as pressure builds for [...]

Speaking at a FX Week Australia conference in Sydney last month, RBA assistant governor Guy Debelle, said the code, which aims to lay out which practices are acceptable to foster [...]

Following National Australia Bank's exit from its troubled UK banking subsidiary, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank, the market was expecting some good news as NAB management focused its attention exclusively on [...]

Blockchain has received so much attention in recent months that it has almost become a requirement for bank executives to have a blockchain strategy, according to Keith Horowitz, Citi's US [...]

It is still early days but while Bertoli cannot yet reach any conclusion on how well the new partnership is developing, the head of the four-year old online small business [...]

Westpac Banking Corporation's chief information officer, David Curran, believes banks do not have the supply of skilled people today to do the job they need to do tomorrow and industry [...]

ANZ's share price underperformed its peers by an average 10 per cent last year (40 per cent over the past five years) and its looks highly likely that this losing [...]

Morgij Analytics' Graham Andersen believes that bankers recently jacked up rates to maintain their returns on equity so they could reward their shareholders and themselves. Elizabeth Fry reports. Australia's largest [...]

Shareholders should be happy with lower returns from their investment in Australian banks since the sector is a lot less risky now. This is the message from Australian Prudential Regulatory [...]

Australia New Zealand Banking Group boss Mike Smith will be replaced by the bank's chief financial officer, Shayne Elliott, who is seen as a safe pair of hands to lead [...]

For the first time Australia's big four banks are benchmarking their branch costs against each other.. An anonymous survey, carried out by Turner & Townsend, seeks to discover how much [...]

One year after apologising to customers who lost savings as a result of fraudulent behaviour by financial advisers, Commonwealth Bank's chief Ian Narev has declared he is proud of the [...]

Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe has warned that investors in asset funds, such as real estate trusts, may not always be able to withdraw their money in [...]

Reports that National Australia Bank is negotiating to sell its poorly-performing Australian life insurance business to Nippon Life for $2.5 billion will be welcomed by shareholders. According to CLSA banking [...]

ANZ claims to be the first bank to introduce contactless technology to its EFTPOS machines in Australia and New Zealand for UnionPay International's five billion cardholders. UnionPay International is a [...]

BANKS ARE SLOWLY adapting to new technology, but is this progression being driven by the realisation that customers want more than apps and online banking, or by the holistic view [...]

Australia's four major banks delivered combined underlying cash earnings of $15.5 billion for the 2015 first-half, up 4.8 per cent on the same period a year ago. But that 4.8 [...]