BANKING

Funds management

While the major banks have been resilient and avoided a worst-case scenario by holding strong balance sheets during the economic downturn, they still have “a big job” ahe...

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Financial planning

The Australian Banking Association has announced two temporary changes to the Banking Code of Practice, which have been approved by the corporate regulator....

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Policy & Regulation

The Finance Sector Union of Australia is asking NAB employees to assist in the audit of their pay, to correct the bank’s failure to remunerate staff....

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Financial planning

The terms were declared unfair by the Federal Court of Australia as they caused a significant imbalance to the parties’ rights and obligations under the contract and woul...

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Financial planning

While industry associations have welcomed the six-month deferral, they have called for the Government to be open to reviewing the timeline given the uncertainty of the CO...

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Policy & Regulation

The consumer group said the deferral struck a "sensible balance" between legislating reform and dealing with the pandemic....

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Financial planning

Hard-pressed industry funds bank, ME Bank, is offering clients financing rearrangements and a six-month repayment holiday as it scrambles to deal with the controversy aro...

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Policy & Regulation

A coalition of consumer groups has pointed to key changes to advice and life insurance resulting from the Royal Commission and insisted on no loopholes and no carve-outs....

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Financial planning

Australia’s banking sector has created opportunities for both borrowers and investors but they need to recognise how to tap these opportunities, according to Metrics....

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Policy & Regulation

Banks and financial services firms have been revealed as having major consumer trust issues with new Roy Morgan research revealing that only Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and...

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Financial planning

The Association of Financial Advisers has urged banks who loaned money to advisers to buy books of clients to show leniency....

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Policy & Regulation

APRA has finalised updates on the Prudential Standard APS 222 to reduce contagion risk within banking groups....

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Funds management

Commonwealth Bank has reported a 28 per cent fall in third-quarter cash profit from continuing operations of $1.7 billion as a result of $714 million in customer remediat...

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Funds management

Macquarie Group recorded net profit for the European financial year to March’s end of $2.982 billion, up 17 per cent on FY18, with a loss in fee income offsetting modest ...

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Financial planning

NAB chief executive, Andrew Thorburn, has defended some fees for no service charged by the bank as a “process issue” rather than dishonesty, as he came under fire at the ...

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