ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott made frequent mentions of “reputational risk” while giving evidence to the house standing committee investigating the big four banks in Canberra on Friday.

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...

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...

ABOVE: The report in which the Commonwealth lists places like the Gold Coast and Geelong as regional. THE Commonwealth Bank is at it again. While to be congratulated on its decision to put a three-year moratorium on regional branch closures in place, it has dragged its co-publisher of the quarterly Regional Movers Index report into an embarrassing situation again by refusing to count their top destinations for regional migration as … regional. The Regional Australia Institute

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...