CBA's insurance scandal is a shocker
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Matt Comyn warned his staff that this week of the banking royal commission could get ugly for the bank.He was proved right in hours.
Matt Comyn warned his staff that this week of the banking royal commission could get ugly for the bank.He was proved right in hours.
The Hayne royal commission has now arrived at one of the most fiendishly difficult questions in the country's $1.6 trillion home loan industry.
The biggest winners from Australia's lithium boom are under investigation by the Tax Office over the price at which they bought Australian lithium products from a local subsidiary.
Tech shares, paced by Facebook, tumbled in New York, triggering a broad sell-off. ASX futures were down 48 points at 4am AEDT.
Aussie accelerator BlueChilli plans global growth after partnering with an ambitious Singaporean VC fund, which says it will have big money to bankroll local start-ups.
Experts say the failure of the Greens in Batman and Nick Xenophon in SA doesn't mean Australia's flirtation with minor parties is over.
The world's biggest commercial lender to the renewable energy sector warns of aggressive strategies by some solar project investors in Australia.
Telstra has taken a step towards its plans to combine its telco heritage with a future in tech, working with Microsoft to offer voice calls from within its Office 365 programs.
Commonwealth Bank's strategy to steer the bank safely through the royal commission is in tatters after a bruising day of public hearings.
Bronte Capital's John Hempton, who uncovered poor lending standards at Australia's banks, says he "genuinely doesn't know" how bad the problem is.
The demerger of Coles is unanimously good for Wesfarmers but CEO Rob Scott is under pressure to reassure investors the split will be good for Coles.
A widening "trust deficit" poses catastrophic risks to the financial system, the new chairman of the corporate regulator James Shipton has warned.
Australia's petrol station sector is set for another major shake-up with plans emerging for a potential $2 billion-plus IPO of Viva Energy, which acquired Shell's oil refining and marketing business in 2014.
Australian shares ended a choppy session on a mildly positive note, as energy firms and miners hauled the benchmark higher.
As China seeks to establish a global oil benchmark at home, it wants to prevent a speculative bubble in its upcoming crude futures.
Labor's changes to dividend imputation will place more pressure on companies to pay out credits to investors via special dividends or capital returns.
Delegates at Asia's largest annual investment conference are used to hearing the word "weird" mentioned in the same breath as President Donald Trump.
The sad truth about Millennials is that they are not nearly as special as they have been told.
Newcrest finds itself uncomfortably poised at the polar extremes of the mining industry's relentless waste management dilemma.
Technology and innovation are at the heart of the new-age US-China war, as security concerns and protectionism pull the US back into its shell.
The Greens didn't lose Batman, Ged Kearney won it, Labor contends.
Victorian Libs president Michael Kroger insists shares in the $70 million, Charles Goode-led Cormack Foundation were always held on trust for the Liberals, despite never being disclosed in the party's accounts.
The government's chances of securing Senate support for its company tax cuts are lineball.
New SA Premier Steven Marshall and close ally, Federal Minister Christopher Pyne, promise much closer links between SA and Canberra.
Australia is out of step with key allies because it doesn't have laws targeting those responsible for human rights violations under Putin's regime.
Delegates at Asia's largest annual investment conference are used to hearing the word "weird" mentioned in the same breath as President Donald Trump.
Safety regulators in the US are investigating airbags in certain Hyundai and Kia vehicles that failed to deploy in frontal collisions linked to four deaths and six injuries.
Malcolm Turnbull says refugees need to be resettled in their homeland to end humanitarian crisis.
The Japanese PM took responsibility on Monday for a loss of trust in his government but denied he or his wife had intervened in a land sale to a school operator with ties to his wife.
The relationship between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump is facing its biggest test yet after the US president's decision to raise tariffs on imported steel and aluminium started a broader fight.
BT Financial Group has called for the superannuation life insurance code to be made mandatory as it becomes the latest retirement fund to sign up to the charter.
While the debate about the fairness of abolishing cash refunds for "spare" tax credits has conflated poor people and those with good accountants, the two groups are quite easy to distinguish.
Labor's super plan grossly overstates the tax revenue it will get, and it won't hit the wealthy in the way it claims to.
Andrew Demetriou retired as the CEO of the AFL in 2014 but is back on an advisory board of the National Basketball League.
Online businesses including Uber, Airbnb and Deliveroo are urging the government to shake-up employment laws to respond to the digital economy and flood of on-demand workers.
Bob Baxt, who died last week, aged 79, was a pioneer of Australia's "Twin Peaks" system of corporate regulation as the head of the ACCC's predecessor,
The technology sector has cautiously welcomed a new skilled visa stream but has called for changes to lift hiring caps for start-ups.
While most luxury menswear brands focus on the working week, Christian Kimber wants to dress men on Saturdays and Sundays.
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