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Record-breaking cash rate cycle continues
5 June 2018
Record-breaking cash rate cycle continues

The Reserve Bank of Australia has today announced the official cash rate for June following its monthly board meeting.

Consultation opens on CCR
5 June 2018
mortgagebusiness

The Treasury has launched a consultation on the new mandatory comprehensive credit reporting regime, which will come into effect next month.

RC brings banking code quarrel to light
4 June 2018
mortgagebusiness

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission and the Australian Banking Association are yet to agree on terms of the new Code of Banking Practice, the financial services royal ...

Analysis: Lessons from Ireland’s ongoing mortgage scandal
4 June 2018
mortgagebusiness

Not too long ago, Australia’s big banks were asked by a parliamentary inquiry when they planned to introduce tracker mortgages. A quick look at the troubled Irish market will show ...

Major bank to divest life insurance business
4 June 2018
mortgagebusiness

ANZ has announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its New Zealand-based life insurance business, OnePath Life.

Banking industry ‘stable’ despite RC revelations: APRA chairman
1 June 2018
mortgagebusiness

The chairman of APRA has downplayed the impact of the royal commission on the financial services industry, despite calling some of the revelations “disturbing”.

FOS admits its decision on widow’s loan repayments was ‘wrong’
31 May 2018
mortgagebusiness

A representative from the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) admitted that he was “wrong” when he ruled that a widow should pay her deceased husband’s business loans within 12 to 18 months

Senators told bank customer he was ‘blackmailed’
29 May 2018
Senators told bank customer he was ‘blackmailed’

The financial services royal commission has heard from a Bankwest customer who was left with “no options” but to declare bankruptcy and sell his profit-generating hotel development.

Non-bank closes $750m RMBS
29 May 2018
mortgagebusiness

A non-bank lender has settled a $750 million RMBS transaction, with assistance from NAB and Westpac.

Mortgage industry could face massive class action
29 May 2018
Mortgage industry could face massive class action

A massive class action lawsuit is being planned on behalf of “Australian bank customers that have entered into mortgage finance agreements with banks since 2012”.