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November 2024

  • Real estate listings Australia

    ‘Setting people up to fail’: Australians ask banks for mortgage help, only to plunge into worse debt

    Customers who get hardship assistance often fall into arrears again once the reprieve ends. Critics blame a ‘cookie-cutter’ approach by the banks

September 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Shoppers walk past sales signs on display in the window of a retail store at a shopping mall in Sydney, Australia, September 4, 2018. Picture taken September 4, 2018. REUTERS/David Gray/File Photo

    Reserve Bank expected to leave interest rate untouched for seventh meeting in a row

    Economic activity was ‘a little bit softer’ than central bank had predicted, one expert notes, but a rate cut still seems unlikely

August 2024

  • Commonwealth Bank logo on a wall

    Banks including CBA criticised for cutting term deposit rates but not mortgage rates

    ‘Sneaky’ move comes as ACCC calls out complex rate-setting policies and notes lack of aggressive price competition in the sector

June 2024

  • A Suncorp sign

    Treasurer approves ANZ takeover of Suncorp banking arm

    Green light for merger comes with conditions including ban on closure of Queensland branches for three years

March 2024

  • A worker spreads out meat at a JBS plant.

    Banks driving increase in global meat and dairy production, report finds

    Financiers providing billion-dollar support for industrial livestock companies to expand leading to unsustainable rise in production

February 2024

  • John Quiggin

    Light-touch competition policy hasn’t helped Australian mortgage holders. It’s time to get tough

    John Quiggin
  • ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb

    Competition watchdog overruled as tribunal gives ANZ-Suncorp merger go-ahead

November 2023

  • ANZ has posted a record cash profit fuelled by 13 interest rate rises since early last year.

    ANZ posts record $7.4bn profit despite surge in mortgage holders falling behind

    Bank reports 14% increase in year-on-year profits and says Australians are ‘muddling through pretty well’

May 2023

  • People are seen walking past an ANZ branch in Melbourne, Australia

    Banks cash in on RBA interest rate hikes as customers grapple with rising repayments

  • A composite image of signage of Australia's 'big four' banks ANZ, Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and the National Australia Bank (NAB) signage in Sydney, Saturday, May 5, 2018. (AAP Image/Joel Carrett) NO ARCHIVING

    Australia’s big four banks may be at peak profitability but fat margins aren’t over, analysts say

February 2023

  • Gabrielle Chan

    The rural network
    Australia needs a new plan to keep rural banks open before they all get turned into cafes

    Gabrielle Chan
    Financial services are essential to keeping regional areas alive but continuing bank closures are putting communities at risk
  • Banks don’t necessarily profit from receiving higher residential and business loan repayments – they are in the margin game.

    Having a lend: does our money go straight to the banks when mortgage rates go up?

    While lending rates and funding costs drive profitability of banks, other factors are also at play, such as bad debts and the health of the economy
  • A woman's hands on a laptop keyboard. Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

    Full Story
    Scammers are getting smarter. Are we ready?

    A scam victim describes how she lost $25,000, and reporter Cait Kelly explores whether Australia is prepared to combat the rise in sophisticated scams

November 2022

  • An aerial view of flood waters inundating the town of Gympie in Queensland

    Australia’s banks likely to reduce lending to regions and sectors at risk of climate change impacts, regulator says

    Apra finds country’s banks may be more vulnerable to economic downturns as they face threefold increase in lending losses

October 2022

  • A man in orange high-vis walks past the Reserve Bank of Australia

    Australian banks hit with payment transfer outage as RBA blames technical error

    Reserve bank says system is back up and running on Thursday, and they are working to clear the backlog

July 2022

  • A man in a high-vis jacket wearing a mask walks past a Telstra retail branch in Sydney

    Working from home: major Australian employers respond to latest Covid health advice

    Telstra and Westpac advise staff to work from home if possible while government departments are yet to shift work settings

May 2021

  • Mount Piper coal Power Station, Portland NSW

    Australia’s big banks reject Nationals’ claims managing climate risk is ‘virtue signalling’

    Major banks say Australia’s international trading partners require the sector to identify and disclose climate risk on their balance sheets

February 2021

  • A reclaimer places coal in stockpiles at the coal port in Newcastle.

    ANZ to stop lending to Australia's biggest coal port over its exposure to fossil fuels

    NAB to step in to help Port of Newcastle refinance under agreement reported to bind it to reducing carbon emissions

October 2020

  • wind turbines against a blue sky with wispy clouds

    Nationals call for ANZ boycott after bank's push for net zero emissions

    Bank says it will stop lending to its largest customers unless businesses have carbon transition plans

May 2020

  • A composite image of signage of Australia’s ‘big four’ banks ANZ, Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank (CBA) and the National Australia Bank (NAB)

    Watchdog oversees $160m in payouts from Australian banks that sold junk insurance

    Eleven lenders are compensating more than 434,000 customers after selling them insurance they couldn’t use
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