ANZ’s new cost-cutting chief executive has boasted that simplifying its banking business is paying off with a much stronger half-year profit following mass retrenchments during a time of global uncertainty.
Stephen Johnson
One of the nation's big four banks has lifted its interim earnings while warning that the impact on customers from the Middle East conflict is still to be felt.
Kaaren Morrissey
ANZ has posted a massive half-year profit, up nine per cent, as it delivers a dire warning to every Australian household.
Blair Jackson and Cameron Micallef
ANZ’s first-half profit surpassed analyst estimates as chief executive Nuno Matos pushes ahead with his overhaul of the big four bank.
Richard Henderson
Investors will be watching the banks' provisions for bad debts when ANZ, NAB and Westpac report their half-year earnings in the coming days.
Derek Rose and Kaaren Morrissey
Cash is king, at least for today as a mass demonstration of support for physical currency plays out at ATMs and bank branches across Australia.
Peta Rasdien
Australia’s banks have pointed the finger at some of the world’s biggest tech companies while demanding ‘a level playing field’ to fix what they have branded a tax regulation ‘imbalance’.
Daniel Newell
Australians are loyal bank customers often staying put for years, but new research suggests that loyalty is doing little for their wallets.
Ryan Johnson
In a major protest against the financial sector and federal government, Australians are being urged to do one simple thing on Tuesday.
Alexandra Feiam and Cameron Micallef
More jobs have been chopped from Bankwest as parent company Commonwealth Bank makes even more change to the Perth-based brand.
Adrian Rauso
An Upper House MP says he has swiftly resolved a legal dispute with Sydney-based lender La Trobe Financial Services over a loan he was accused of failing to pay back.
Rebecca Le May
A big four bank has hiked interest rates for the second time in three weeks as mortgage holders brace for a critical Reserve Bank meeting.
Cameron Micallef
The lender warned of rising bad debts and the need to preserve more capital as the shock from rising interest rates hurts Australian borrowers.
Tom Richardson
An Aussie finance giant has copped a massive fine after breaching spam regulations millions of times – despite being fined for similar conduct years before.
David Hannant
Veteran market analyst Charlie Aitken has issued a bullish prediction the Big Australian will bump Commonwealth Bank as the nation’s largest company, driven by its heavy copper exposure.
The lender revealed its profitability took a hit from interest rate volatility in the Middle East conflict.
Right now we’re in a market marked by hesitation. Buyers aren’t making bad property decisions but too many are making no decision at all — and that’s the real cost.
Chris Foster-Ramsay
A new troop of technology grads are filing into Bankwest guided by a mantra to not be afraid of artificial intelligence taking their jobs, but rather the peer who wields the tool better than they can.
Simone Grogan
The first full month of the US-led war on Iran is expected to see inflation soar to a three-year high and it’s tipped to get worse, even with a cut in fuel tax.
NAB has increased its fixed home loan rates for the second time in two weeks, losing its title as the cheapest lender.
Abisha Sapkota
Bendigo Bank shares jumped this week on its cost out plans linked to advances in AI, as banks jump and tech sinks in the fast unfolding world of new AI services.
The bank will slash its workforce after agreeing two technology deals saving $65 million year-on-year.
If Michele Bullock ever needed a sign that deploying interest rates as a weapon to tame inflation is inherently unfair, a walk through Whitford City at 10.30am last Thursday would have made it crystal clear.
A major Australian bank will no longer require more than one document to turn you into a customer by tapping into hidden technology.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
