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Allowing consumers to access data about them held by big businesses such as banks can boost competition.

Fight over consumers' financial data heats up

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Noni B+ for Babcock & Brown boys

CBD
Colin Kruger, CBD

Graeme Wood, the founder of Wotif.com.

He sold wotif, now Graeme Wood is putting money into biotech

BUSINESS
Brian Robins

At the halfway mark, a rather large 70 per cent of companies have increased dividend payments compared with this time ...

More Aussie companies paying out dividends

THE ECONOMY
Michael Pascoe

A shopper walks past a Daiso Japan Value LLC store.

Daiso in hot water over 'dangerous' products

CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Patrick Hatch

Commonwealth Bank says higher funding costs and capital requirements are causing it to reduce the size of interest rate ...

Commonwealth Bank pulls back in mortgage discount war

BANKING AND FINANCE
Clancy Yeates

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Greg Medcraft.

Banks scolded in BBSW stoush

BANKING AND FINANCE
Patrick Durkin
1 hr ago

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Updated: August 23, 2016 - 12:34AM

Allowing consumers to access data about them held by big businesses such as banks can boost competition.

Fight over consumers' financial data heats up

Clancy Yeates

Illustration: John Shakespeare.

Noni B+ for Babcock & Brown boys

Colin Kruger, CBD

At the halfway mark, a rather large 70 per cent of companies have increased dividend payments compared with this time ...

More Aussie companies paying out dividends

Michael Pascoe

Heavy cost cutting at the Port Kembla works helped Bluescope earnings surge in the year to June

Bluescope warns of need to keep lid on costs

Brian Robins

The recent stock market slump has hit activist hedge funds particularly hard, raising the question of whether ...

Markets Live: Fed fears beat profits

Live
Patrick Commins and Jens Meyer

A flood of earnings are out this morning, as well as jobs data.

8@eight: ASX set for weaker start, Fed in focus

Sponsored
Angus Nicholson

On the ASX this week, 87 major companies are due to report their profits.

Profit reporting to captivate market

Patrick Commins

Plenty of upside left in gold stocks

Vanessa Desloires

Woolworths tipped to report heavy loss on back of Masters exit

Nassim Khadem

Obama's golden years for investors

ANALYSIS
Jeff Sommer

CIC pursuing $US9b deal with Vale

Vinicy Chan, Brett Foley and R.T. Watson

During financial year 2015, nib's net margin expanded to 5 per cent, at the bottom of its target range, but ahead of ...

Nib profit soars but clouds seen ahead

Jessica Gardner

MLC executive Paul Carter says superannuation should encourage people to save for an "adequate" income in retirement.

Super should be more than pension supplement, says NAB

Clancy Yeates

Morgan Stanley's headquarters in New York. The bank allegedly put lemons in its own employees' retirement plans.

Big bank 'rips off own workers'

Hugh Son and Andrew Harris

Carnegie sees little short-erm respite for European banks, and says investors should expect volatility until the ECB ...

Whistleblower turns down $21m payout to make a point

Matt Turner

Public sector wage growth is also at a record low, at 2.4 per cent.

Exec excess - reining in the big bonuses

Georgia Wilkins and Ruth Williams

First Officer Brandy Beck, a pilot for Frontier Airlines, at home with her children in Denver.

When the captain is mum

Annalyn Kurtz

Department of Human Services officials have confirmed that 916 workers will be shed in 2016-2017 and not 810.

Casual hours to count towards redundancy payouts

Anna Patty

In Greek mythology, Narcissus was mesmerised by his own reflection

The companies narcissists are attracted to

Anna Patty

Public sector wage growth is also at a record low, at 2.4 per cent.

Exec excess - reining in the big bonuses

President Barack Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, ...

Obama's golden years for investors

ANALYSIS
Jeff Sommer

Coles supermarket employee Penny Vickers is furious about the deal. "Why wasn't it brought to our attention?"

Coles knew more than half its workers were underpaid

EXCLUSIVE

As many as 68 per cent of those surveyed said they did not keep track of their extras.

How Australians are losing out on their health insurance

Kate Aubusson
1 hr ago

Consumer group Choice has called on Airtasker to substantiate claims about how much workers can earn.

Airtasker taken to task over '$20,000' claim

Georgia Wilkins

Woolworths customers have complained about the current loyalty scheme, saying it is too hard to earn Woolworths Dollars.

Woolworths announces revamped rewards program after leak

Lucy Cormack

Woolworths customers have complained about the current loyalty scheme, saying it is too hard to earn Woolworths Dollars.

Woolworths announces revamped rewards program after leak

Lucy Cormack

Analysts says Woolworths' turnaround under CEO Brad Banducci will take longer and cost more than expected.

Woolworths tipped to report heavy loss on back of Masters exit

Nassim Khadem

Coles supermarket employee Penny Vickers is furious about the deal. "Why wasn't it brought to our attention?"

Coles knew more than half its workers were underpaid

EXCLUSIVE
Ben Schneiders

Three children lying on the ground in front of the tv.

Television love affair endures retail downturn

Patrick Hatch

Woolworths Reward Card. Third time lucky?

Woolworths set to relaunch rewards program

Esther Han

At the halfway mark, a rather large 70 per cent of companies have increased dividend payments compared with this time ...

More Aussie companies paying out dividends

Michael Pascoe

Nick Xenophon will move that the Senate economics committee investigate replacing the inflation target with one for ...

Xenophon leads push to axe inflation target

EXCLUSIVE
Peter Martin

A Chifley Research Centre paper suggests improving access to quality education to increase economic and social mobility.

Preachers of innovation should start by healing themselves

Ross Gittins

AFR, GENERIC, ASX
Australian Stock Exchange --- ASX, shares, investing, wealth, growth, economy, business, stock ...

If capping executive pay isn't the solution, rethinking capitalism is

Nassim Khadem

Heavy cost cutting at the Port Kembla works helped Bluescope earnings surge in the year to June

Bluescope warns of need to keep lid on costs

Brian Robins

The court heard the Oswals planned to use the proceeds from the ANZ settlement to reach a settlement with the ATO.

ATO, Oswals ordered to mediate over $100m-plus tax bill

Sarah Danckert

Fortescue chairman and major shareholder Andrew Forrest, who holds just over one billion shares in the miner according ...

$125m payday: 'Twiggy' Forrest cashes in as Fortescue profit surges

Tess Ingram

Mirvac is now proposing to build an apartment tower that will be taller but skinnier than the previously planned office ...

Mirvac plans apartments at Harbourside

Carolyn Cummins

The heritage-listed property at 362 Kent Street, with rear lane access to Council Place, is being sold via Colliers ...

Sydney CBD laneways are in hot demand

Carolyn Cummins

Lend Lease new offices at Barangaroo tower 3,in Sydney, Australia.

Lendlease unveils double-digit growth

Carolyn Cummins

A Liverpool football fan holds up a scarf in the stands during a match.

Liverpool hires advisers after Chinese bid

Donald Trump has continued to call Mr Ailes a 'friend'.

Why Trump is the biggest risk to the world economy

Tim Wallace

President Barack Obama waves from the top of the steps of Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base in Md., Wednesday, ...

Obama's golden years for investors

ANALYSIS
Jeff Sommer

Jarryd Rubinstein holds the Guinness world record for the most consecutive muscle ups, which he has held since 2010.

Everyday heroes: the world record holders you didn't see in Rio

Fitness
Gary Nunn

Mortlach 1939 is billed as the oldest single malt ever bottled.

Rare whisky turns to rivers of gold for investors

Fine Drinks

When Woolworths South Africa bought David Jones, once shareholders passed a scheme of arrangement, it became compulsory ...

Corporate takeover? Decide for yourself whether to sell your shares

Scott Phillips

A mortgage broker puts the borrower at the centre of the process.

Why using a mortgage broker gives borrowers more power

Mark Bouris

Jess May is an accidental entrepreneur who has forged a new direction.

I started my business from a Facebook post

Christine D'Mello

The way forward will involve serious regulation of the online SME lending industry.

Online SME payday lenders are alive and all too well

Neil Slonin

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