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    Banking regulator fixes long-standing errors but bank data doesn't add up
    Dale Webster
    • May 1
    • 5 min
    News/news feature

    Banking regulator fixes long-standing errors but bank data doesn't add up

    NEWS and COMMENT A NUMBER of significant mistakes identified in Federal Government records set up to monitor banking service levels...
    NAB downgrades branches to cashless services
    Dale Webster
    • Apr 6
    • 2 min
    News/news feature

    NAB downgrades branches to cashless services

    The definition of what makes a bank a bank has never been more important as NAB starts to quietly downgrade branches to cashless...
    Regional banking inquiry reopens political divide
    Dale Webster
    • Feb 17
    • 7 min
    News/news feature

    Regional banking inquiry reopens political divide

    BANK CLOSURES in regional Australia will be an election issue for the first time in nearly two decades thanks to the findings of a...
    What anyone making a submission to Australia’s latest regional banking inquiry should know first
    Dale Webster
    • Nov 30, 2021
    • 10 min
    News/news feature

    What anyone making a submission to Australia’s latest regional banking inquiry should know first

    ANALYSIS/OPINION If there is one certain outcome from the recently announced government inquiry into regional banking services it is that...
    'Big Four' banks casting a dangerous shadow
    Dale Webster
    • May 11, 2021
    • 21 min
    News/news feature

    'Big Four' banks casting a dangerous shadow

    Are cashed-up and bankless towns just watching the money go round and round? CASTERTON, Grenfell, Home Hill, Nathalia and Toukley. Five...
    Why I spent a year counting every bank in regional Australia
    Dale Webster
    • May 11, 2021
    • 9 min
    News/news feature

    Why I spent a year counting every bank in regional Australia

    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...

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