Macquarie is among dozens of lenders to start offering slightly lower interest rates, as banks compete for fewer customers.
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The effects won’t be immediately visible. But many of these jobs are entry points for young graduates and early-career professionals: our future business leaders.
Financial institutions are meant to have reliable payment systems in place. But more work needs to be done to ensure they do this.
The federal government has laid out a big picture proposal to keep cash alive. But it will need to keep a close eye on the details, and the unique challenges cash presents for businesses.
Former Reserve Bank and Treasury chiefs have gone on to run Westpac, the National Australia Bank, the ANZ, and Macquarie Bank. It makes regulating those banks hard.
Deep Saini speaks with Michelle Grattan about the week in politics.
If ASIC succeeds in its action against two subsidiaries of the National Australia Bank, the rest of the industry will be put on notice.
Management trumps technology in making companies productive, but that doesn’t mean firms can be complacent when it comes to keeping up with change.
The Financial Services Royal Commission can ask the banks for the material it wants, in the form it wants.
The Australian Banking Association says ‘nearly 80% of bank profits go straight back to shareholders’, the majority of whom are ‘everyday Australians’. Is that right?
Broadening the royal commission beyond banking may dilute the focus on the banks themselves.
The major banks have tried to downplay their role in manipulating the BBSW interest rate benchmark. But this is not the first instance of bad behaviour.
Parliamentary hearings reveal a lot of confusion between government, regulators and industry around banking regulation. This needs to be fixed.
The new levy on banks from the budget is a small hit to their profit but it could have unintended consequences.
The banks could have used their collective bargaining power not only against Apple for Apple Pay but also stall the adoption of mobile payments in Australia.
Members of House Standing Committee on Economics should be asking the directors of Australia’s Big Four banks (not the CEOs) different questions, if they really want the right answers.
Business Briefing: fixing culture in banking and finance
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"Banking culture" has drawn a lot of scrutiny this year, after several high-profile scandals. But Professor Paul Kofman says there isn't much evidence for how to intervene if there's a problem.
An ASIC report detailing how financial advice was paid for but not given by Australia’s big four banks exposes a culture problem that the government needs to deal with.
ASIC has been too slow to prosecute those accused of rigging the bank bill swap rate so it doesn’t matter if the government makes the penalties harsher for those found guilty.
When the cash rate increases, lending rates shoot up like rockets, but when the opposite occurs they go down like feathers.
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Visiting Fellow, Macquarie University Applied Finance Centre, Macquarie University
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Emeritus Professor of Finance, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law, The University of Western Australia
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Professor, UTS Business, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Accounting, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Banking and Finance, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Law, UNSW
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Professor of Banking & Applied Economics, University of Stirling
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Professor of Management, University of Wollongong
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Adjunct Professor, Curtin Law School and Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Vice-Chancellor and President, University of Canberra