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Banking regulator fixes long-standing errors but 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...
Dale Webster
May 1, 20225 min read
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...
Dale Webster
Apr 6, 20222 min read
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...
Dale Webster
Feb 17, 20227 min read
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...
Dale Webster
Nov 30, 202110 min read
'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...
Dale Webster
May 11, 202122 min read
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...
Dale Webster
May 11, 20219 min read
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