THE Senate inquiry into regional bank closures, which delivered its final report in May this year, was an important investigation by...

ABOVE: From ANZ's response to a customer complaint over the Katoomba closure dated September 6, 2024. JUST when it seemed ANZ’s attempts...

ABOVE: ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott after telling Economics Committee chairman Daniel Mulino for the second time that ANZ had...

IT is impossible to pinpoint an exact time when Australia’s big four banks turned on their regional customer base but May 24, 2024 will...

THE Commonwealth Bank has marked the Sunshine Coast again being named the fastest growing regional migration destination in Australia by...

IT may have taken 20 years but a Federal Government inquiry has finally made good on a warning that if the 'big four' banks did not...

OFFICIAL recognition of banking as an essential service, the end of self-regulation of the banking industry and a pathway forward for the...

COMMENT IF there was ever a time to take a close look at the relationship Australia’s major banks have with the word “trust” it is now....

After slashing NAB's regional branches by a third Ross McEwan is bailing before a senate inquiry into the closures reports. Miniscule...

DURING the COVID crisis, Australia’s major banks lobbied hard to be counted as an essential service so they could remain open during...

HEADLINES around Australia last week screamed out about bank closures. They were triggered by the release of the Australian Prudential...

ABOVE: Anna Bligh talks banking taskforce in Canberra on Wednesday. Vision: APH THE chief executive of the Australian Banking Association...

AT the end of two days listening to senate hearings investigating the impact of regional bank closures in Western Australia all I wanted...

THE Commonwealth Bank is at it again. While to be congratulated on its decision to put a three-year moratorium on regional branch...

THE National Australia Bank (NAB) has been pulling a swifty on customers that have lost branches since September last year, using...

WESTPAC should have been fronting up at the second hearing of the Senate inquiry into regional bank closures in Cloncurry this morning...

THE Commonwealth Bank is closing a branch in an area it has itself labelled one of Australia’s most popular destinations for regional...

CONTEMPT of the Senate is a pretty easy thing to get your head around. Witnesses at hearings who give false or misleading evidence run...

TODAY we learned three things: the Banking Code of Practice isn’t worth the paper it is written on, the format for emailing Westpac...

Dear Mr Albanese, For a federal parliamentary petition to be approved, the rules state the request must be for something the House of...

COMMENT I’M sure there will be beers all round tonight for the Westpac communications team who managed to flip the bird at six federal...

JUNEE is one of the first towns to benefit from a parliamentary call for banks to halt all planned branch closures until a senate inquiry...

A MOTION to hold Australia’s first parliamentary inquiry into regional bank closures in 19 years has passed through the Federal Senate...

AS the year draws to an end it is time to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly gifts given to regional Australians on the issue of...

CUSTOMERS of regional bank branches that are being closed have long had a sinking feeling they are being played. The letter arrives...

EXCLUSIVE THE number of banks closed in regional Australia in the six weeks since the Albanese Government quietly released the...

Dear Mr Dreyfus, I write to highlight issues with the administration of the Financial Services (Collection of Data) Act 2001 and the...

From the recent Regional Banking Taskforce final report to media stories dating back 20 years, mistakes in the APRA figures they quoted...

APRA has contradicted the Treasurer and what its own chairman told Parliament as it scrambles to avoid making the 'big four' banks obey...

THE release of the Australian banking regulator’s annual points of presence data this week will be an integrity test for both its...

REGIONAL Australians found themselves as the butt of a nasty joke at weekend, with both the new Federal Government and the Opposition...

REGIONAL Australians angry over continued bank closures have a chance to have their voice heard in federal parliament. The Regional’s...

An “open letter to the treasurer” published by The Regional last month drew attention to the plight of the South Australian town of...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL TREASURER, DR JIM CHALMERS Dear Dr Chalmers, We need to talk about Peterborough. It’s a town in South...

NEWS and COMMENT A NUMBER of significant mistakes identified in Federal Government records set up to monitor banking service levels...

The definition of what makes a bank a bank has never been more important as NAB starts to quietly downgrade branches to cashless...

BANK CLOSURES in regional Australia will be an election issue for the first time in nearly two decades thanks to the findings of a...

ANALYSIS/OPINION If there is one certain outcome from the recently announced government inquiry into regional banking services it is that...

Are cashed-up and bankless towns just watching the money go round and round? CASTERTON, Grenfell, Home Hill, Nathalia and Toukley. Five...

BACKGROUND I have spent more than a year counting banks. It’s not an introduction to a story I could have foreseen myself writing 12...