Business
Banking & finance
'Ratchet up the mongrel': Bank regulator shows more teeth
APRA boss Wayne Byres says he will let its bank supervisory team off the leash.
- by Sarah Danckert
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Banking royal commission
ANZ says broking could become 'a privilege for the wealthy'
ANZ Bank says going to a mortgage broker could become "a privilege for the wealthy" if commissions were scrapped in favour of a flat fee paid by customers.
- by Clancy Yeates & Sarah Danckert
Banking royal commission
'Ratchet up the mongrel': APRA vows to get tougher on the banks
A paper discussing APRA's supervision of the Commonwealth Bank recommends the regulator shows more bite - and that's what APRA intends to do, says its boss.
- by Sarah Danckert, Miriam Steffens & Clancy Yeates
Banking royal commission
ANZ's Elliott asked David Gonski for a pay cut
ANZ Bank chief executive Shayne Elliott requested a pay cut from chairman David Gonski for the sake of "accountability" and "crediblity."
- by Clancy Yeates & Sarah Danckert
Opinion
Big four
You'd think the ANZ boss would see the hidden improvised explosive devices. But no.
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott was the latest of the bank bosses to walk into the now familiar trap of talking up his bank’s laudable values.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Banking royal commission
ANZ caps credit card gambling, ditches tobacco investment
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott painted the bank as a good guy, but ANZ's terrible breach reporting record and its overcharging of two million accounts was also a focus
- by Sarah Danckert & Clancy Yeates
Banking royal commission
AMP's few bad apples claim riles Commissioner Hayne
Preliminary findings said AMP had put in place a business strategy to charge some customer fees for service they did not receive over a 90 day period.
- by Sarah Danckert
Regulation
Time to pay? Aussies owe more than $900m on Afterpay-style services
Buy now pay later services like Afterpay have escaped being treated as credit providers just in time for Christmas.
- by Charlotte Grieve & Colin Kruger
Banking royal commission
ANZ CEO to the chairman of the board: Pay me less!
ANZ boss Shayne Elliott revealed at the royal commission that he asked the bank’s chairman, David Gonski, to lower his remuneration by 22 per cent.
- by Sarah Danckert, Miriam Steffens & Clancy Yeates
Opinion
Banking royal commission
Ken Henry ponders the state of capitalism - and agrees it's not pretty
Ken Henry’s soliloquy on the state of capitalism provided one of the more philosophical moments in an at times testy appearance before the royal commission.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
Banking royal commission
AMP's fees-for-no-service scandal could top $1 billion
AMP has uncovered a fresh fees-for-no-service issue, this time in its superannuation business as the cost of the scandal to its business grows.
- by Sarah Danckert & Clancy Yeates