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

THE chief executive of the Australian Banking Association Anna Bligh did not read a single submission to the 2021-2022 Regional Banking Taskforce she was a member of.

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...

ABOVE: Senator Matt Canavan listening to Westpac’s evidence at the Sale hearing in March. It would be safe to say he doesn't have a poker face. WESTPAC should have been fronting up at the second hearing of the Senate inquiry into regional bank closures in Cloncurry this morning but after the beating it took during the first hearing at Sale in March, it appears it was not prepared to face an angry mob in a town where it was planning to close its local branch. In an RSVP to its

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...