Business
Banking & finance
ME Bank facing 62 criminal charges over mortgage fail
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions will allege ME Bank gave wrong information to customers or failed to notify them altogether about mortgage changes.
- by Charlotte Grieve
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Banks beware: Fast, cheap loans set to disrupt $1.9 trillion mortgage market
The combination of excess returns and new tech-based rivals have stoked predictions an Uber-like disruption is coming to the $1.9 trillion home loan market.
- by Clancy Yeates
The calamitous world of King Clive Palmer
The billionaire Queensland mining magnate, serial litigant and political aspirant is back in the media spotlight. But what is driving him?
- by Sarah Danckert
Opinion
China
The woes of China’s ‘bad bank’ point to deeper problems
The ongoing problems with state-controlled Huarong are exposing the serious fault lines within China’s economy and financial system.
- by Stephen Bartholomeusz
The hunt for missing billions goes on after Bernie Madoff’s death
Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernard Madoff died earlier this year. But the effort to untangle one of the biggest financial frauds in Wall Street history continues.
- by Tom Hays and Larry Neumeister
Housing investors to pick up slack as first home buyers retreat: AFG
One of the country’s biggest mortgage brokers, AFG, is betting property investors will continue returning to the market.
- by Clancy Yeates
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Paris Agreement
NAB chief ‘taking into account’ landmark climate report in oil and gas policy
NAB’s Ross McEwan responded to a letter by a coalition of activists claiming to represent 1 million Australians calling for an end to financing oil and gas projects.
- by Charlotte Grieve
Klarna shrugs off bank threat as it signs up A$AP Rocky as investor
Klarna has shrugged off the growing competition from banks, saying it wants to be a shopping platform rather than a mere payments business.
- by Clancy Yeates
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IPO
‘Lists and sags’: Questions around PEXA’s $3.3b valuation
Property settlements platform PEXA is set to become the largest float in almost three years after its majority shareholder Link Administration opted to maximise the company’s potential value.
- by Charlotte Grieve and Colin Kruger
Zip sets two-year deadline to stake wider global claim
Peter Gray, co-founder of Australia’s second-largest buy now, pay later operator, says it is ready to rev up its overseas growth engine.
- by Clancy Yeates
Banking apps to get more predictive and personal: CBA
Commonwealth Bank’s head of retail banking says the bank’s app will increasingly serve up automated tips to customers on how to better manage their money.
- by Clancy Yeates