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Frank Ganis joins major brokerage
14 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

Mortgage veteran Frank Ganis has joined a national mortgage brokerage after stepping down from his role as executive director at Macquarie Bank earlier this year.

‘Best’ brokerages open to varied skill sets and experience: recruiter
11 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

The key to having a staff that “gels” is encouraging diversity of experience and paying attention to potential recruits’ personalities, a broker recruiter has said.

Markets reacted ‘incorrectly’ to 3.5% rate talk, says Lowe
11 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

RBA governor Philip Lowe has explained the central bank’s position on interest rates and clarified the 3.5 per cent neutral rate comment that triggered a strong reaction from financial ...

Pepper to consolidate rather than invest
11 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

Non-major lender Pepper, which is in the midst of a $675 million takeover, is planning to focus its future strategy on “scaling up existing platforms” rather than investing in new ones

AMP mortgage book up by 18% to $18.2bn
11 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

A 50 per cent increase in broker sales has helped deliver a 17.9 per cent increase in AMP Bank’s residential mortgage book.

COBA chief steps down
10 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

The board of the Customer Owned Banking Association has advised its members 'with regret' that Mark Degotardi has resigned as CEO.

Pepper to be snapped up for $675m
10 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

California-based investment manager KKR will pay a significant premium to acquire non-bank lender Pepper after the group today announced that it has entered into a scheme implementation deed

Entry requirements for broking ‘too low’
9 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

The entry requirements for broking are “too low”, and if brokers want to be held in the same light as solicitors and accountants, they need to be educated accordingly.

RBA flags issue with non-major turnaround times
7 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

Interest-only lending changes driven by increased regulatory scrutiny are creating processing headaches for the non-major banks.

NSW housing need set to grow ‘substantially’ by 2025
7 August 2017
mortgagebusiness

More than one in five NSW households will be in "housing need" by 2025, 5 per cent higher than the national average, a new study has revealed.