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Public confidence in Australia's banks has been steadily eroding since financial deregulation in 1983 to the point where now the brand of the Big Four banks, and especially the Commonwealth Bank, is at its nadir.

A money laundering compliance scandal threatens to cost CBA its position as the country's top-rated banking stock.

After Alex and Lauren Fisher exchanged their wedding vows in June last year, they jetted off to Bali for a honeymoon using money they'd saved with the Acorns investment app.

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APRA’s decision to join other regulators in the Commonwealth Bank “culture attack” is well overdue and may be too late.

The Commonwealth Bank is tipped to face further upheaval in its senior management ranks as a result of the banking regulator's move to put the bank's organisational structure under the microscope.

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An unprecedented inquiry will examine whether the Commonwealth Bank undermined its own reputation in pursuit of profit, after a damaging run of scandals at the country's biggest bank.

How long is too long to spend paying off a credit card debt?

Australia's corporate watchdog has defended a decision to hand the Commonwealth Bank an advance copy of a report into its handling of life insurance claims before it was made public.

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The proposed Maurice Blackburn/IMF Bentham class action against the Commonwealth Bank may not have nearly as much going for it as the highly publicised launch on Wednesday would have us believe.

Banks could soon partially unwind some of the tighter credit conditions being felt by many property investors, one of the country's biggest mortgage brokers predicts.

Perpetual's wealth advisory business provided the highlight of the financial services group's full-year results.

Only eight chief executives of Australia's 100 biggest listed companies missed out on a bonus last year, says a new report that suggests performance hurdles for many bosses should be higher.

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It is being pitched as the biggest shareholder class action in the country. Commonwealth Bank on one side, and Maurice Blackburn bankrolled by IMF on the other side. Why did CBA's board wait to inform shareholders about the Austrac investigation until the genie was out of the bottle?

The growing sophistication of bumper bars is pushing up motor insurance claim costs, causing more cars to be written off and crunching the profit margins of Insurance Australia Group.

Insurance Australia Group shares have dropped more than 7 per cent after the insurer said profit margins would narrow in the year ahead, amid high claim costs.

The Commonwealth Bank faces a potential investor class action over its disclosure of more than 53,000 alleged breaches of anti-money laundering laws, following a sharp fall in its share price when the scandal emerged earlier this month.

Banks are on a collision course with some of their key shareholders over Scott Morrison's plan to give the prudential regulator stronger powers to intervene in senior bankers' pay packets.

Westpac Banking Corp said its stressed assets edged slightly lower during the third quarter, despite a rise in mortgage delinquencies.

Xinja, which hopes to lead a wave of new digital start-up banks, says moves to relax the strict licensing regime for the industry are already making investors more willing to back small challenger banks.

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The reality is that regulators are relying on banks with disparate systems to do their legwork while forever playing catch-up with the more organised criminals.

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It's clear Austrac and CBA see a key element of this case differently.

The government's financial intelligence agency has examined the ATM systems of CBA's rivals and is confident they haven't had the same problems in reporting large cash transactions to authorities.

QBE Group expects to sell some of its troubled Latin American business after an "extremely disappointing" loss in its emerging markets arm dragged on the global insurer's profits.

ANZ Banking Group said third-quarter cash profit rose 5.3 per cent from the previous two quarters as a rise in owner-occupier home ownership helped grow its mortgage book.

Start-up businesses with $3 million in capital could qualify for a "restricted" banking licence under a proposal from the prudential regulator to put more competitive heat on the big four.

The departure of Commonwealth Bank chief executive Ian Narev has been backed by corporate governance experts, but failed to stave off the political heat on the bank over a money laundering compliance scandal.

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The big bet doing the rounds is whether Ian Narev will last in the top job at Commonwealth Bank until June 30. The odds are that he – and a number of others – will be gone well before then.

CBA will refund about $10 million to more than 65,000 customers after selling them unsuitable insurance when they applied for credit cards and home loans.

The Commonwealth Bank has been blasted for its first climate policy statement that was scant on detail and lagged the commitments of its banking peers in Australia.