Economy

New home sales up for the first time in 2018
1 August 2018
New home sales up for the first time in 2018

For the first time this year, new home sales have risen in every major market but one, according to a new report.

Victoria dethrones NSW as top state economy
1 August 2018
mortgagebusiness

Victoria has dethroned New South Wales for the first time to become Australia’s best-performing state economy, according to a new report.

CoreLogic analyses ‘credit crunch’ scenarios
31 July 2018
CoreLogic analyses ‘credit crunch’ scenarios

Describing the recent slowdown in overall lending activity as a credit crunch might be “overzealous”, but it could be true for investors in Sydney and Melbourne, CoreLogic’s Cameron Kusher ...

Mutual bank names CEO
31 July 2018
mortgagebusiness

BankVic has announced that former CFO Anthony De Fazio has been appointed to the role of CEO in a permanent capacity.

ASIC winds up companies in land banking scheme
30 July 2018
ASIC

The Federal Court of Australia has made orders winding up five companies for their role in a land banking scheme that targeted both retail and SMSF investors.

ASIC winds up land banking companies
30 July 2018
ASIC

The Federal Court of Australia has made orders winding up a number of companies for their role in a land banking scheme.

AMP downgrades profits as it continues damage control
30 July 2018
AMP

The embattled wealth giant has slashed its H1 FY18 profit expectations, citing the banking royal commission, customer remediation and some one-off costs as reasons for its reduced estimates

Trust in banking sector ‘deteriorating’
30 July 2018
mortgagebusiness

The “clear trust deficit” in the banking and financial services sector is worsening, according to joint research from Deloitte Digital and Salesforce.

Bank heads call for calm amid ‘embarrassing’ RC
27 July 2018
Peter Warne, Macquarie

Macquarie’s chairman and NAB’s CEO have sought to reinfuse confidence in the banking sector and repair reputational damage inflicted by the financial services royal commission.

Banking industry hits out at AFCA’s proposed rules
27 July 2018
mortgagebusiness

The ABA and major banks have called for changes to the proposed rules that would define the jurisdictional parameters of AFCA, calling certain provisions “inappropriate”.