Business
Banking & finance
ASIC cracks down on cryptocurrency promoters
The regulator has stopped promoters of initial coin offerings and funds that invest in crypto-assets from raising money from retail investors.
- by John Collett
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Banking royal commission
Not-so lucky you're with AAMI: Suncorp's bushfire shame
For many AAMI customers who lost their homes in the 2015 Christmas Day Wye River bush fires their "complete replacement" policies did not replace much.
- by Sarah Danckert
Analysis
Big four
NAB pay revamp makes it much harder to reward bad behaviour
NAB has unveiled its new executive remuneration scheme after the heat of the royal commission and regulatory pressure.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Private banking
Banks' spring racing season begins with horse-trading on rates
For the banks, the start of spring is crucial to their marketing schedules and with auctions down they are competing for a smaller share of the property pie.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Banking royal commission
Pregnant Sacha and kids forced out of home after insurer's 18-month delay
It took insurer Youi 18 months to repair the roof of heavily pregnant Broken Hill resident Sacha Murphy after a hail storm, forcing her to live in a caravan.
- by Sarah Danckert & Clancy Yeates
Banking royal commission
Customer suffering, scandals to slash bonuses in NAB's new pay system
Executives who oversee bad corporate behaviour may receive no bonus at all under a revamp of National Australia Bank's pay system.
- by Mathew Dunckley
Banking royal commission
IAG's Swann delayed reforms to protect market share
IAG's offshot Swann delayed reforming problematic sales practices, which led to consumers buying dud cover, because it did not want to lose market share.
- by Clancy Yeates & Ruth Williams
Payments
'Hey Siri, pay John $20 for dinner': Westpac launches voice payments
From this week, consumers will be able to pay someone simply by talking to their smart phone's "digital assistant" and taking a scan of their face.
- by Clancy Yeates
Banking royal commission
'Cascade crap to others': how Allianz staff approached compliance
Allianz's processes for ensuring its website content complied with the law were "deficient", the royal commission heard on Tuesday.
- by Clancy Yeates & Ruth Williams
Banking royal commission
ASIC deputy resigns just months into extended contract
Peter Kell has departed the corporate watchdog amid criticism of the regulator at the royal commission and from the government.
- by Mathew Dunckley, Eryk Bagshaw & Ruth Williams
Macquarie to buy Qatar-owned Aussie farms
Macquarie Group has agreed to buy most of the Australian farm portfolio of Qatar's Hassad Food, the agricultural arm of the country's sovereign wealth fund.