Digital wallets may displace plastic within 10 years: ANZ

Why ANZ reckons customers will soon embrace paying on their smart phones.

NAB to axe salaries, sales targets link

The salaries of National Australia Bank's frontline staff and managers will no longer be linked to sales targets.

NAB wealth shake-up creates country’s biggest retail super fund

National Australia Bank is merging five of its superannuation funds to create the country's biggest retail fund.

RBA plays down credit rating fears

Countries that have lost their AAA rating have not experienced dramatic financial consequences, RBA's Luci Ellis says.

NAB cuts fixed home loan rates

NAB's fixed rates for various owner-occupied home loans have reached new lows among the big four, and may signal a step-up in competition in the mortgage market.

Chinese highlight Australia's big shift

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How a Chinese tourism boom, and a slide in the number Australians jetting to Bangkok, symbolises big changes in our economy.

ATMs on the decline

The popularity of digital payments appears to finally be cutting back the number of automated teller machines, as consumers take out cash less frequently.

Banks 'unlikely' to avoid ratings cut

Capital raisings of up to $8 billion per bank would be needed to keep their current ratings if Australia's AAA credit rating were cut, S&P; says.

Banks' credit rating outlook cut to 'negative'

Bank funding costs may rise after Standard & Poor's downgraded its credit rating outlook for the big four.

Bank code of conduct review kicks off

A code of practice setting out how banks should deal with consumers and small business customers will be put under the microscope.