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Focus on older men will kill financial planning

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... planning wasn't perceived as a "glamorous" profession: "Boys growing up don't want to be advisers; they want to be investment bankers. "We haven't articulated our profession very well, especially to young people. We have to make clear financial planning ...

Report shows bank reform well underway

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... and making sure we're working to improve the experience they have with Commonwealth Bank," Comyn said. The Australian Bankers' Association says since the initiatives were announced in April, banks have been working hard to ensure the reform process started ...

NAB appoints independent customer advocate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
... serious complaints. Catherine Wolthuizen will step into the newly created banking role as NAB commits to the Australian Bankers' Association (ABA) initiative to make banking more transparent for customers and to strengthen and the build independence ...

Banks will always take more risk: APRA exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... "There's a balance of capital, liquidity, asset quality, and management risk. In the Australian case the vast majority of bankers, insurance executives and superannuation fund trustees are honest, competent people and they're not running a charity," ...

Negative interest rates drive spike in safe sales

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... hardware stores report demand for safes - where cash can be stored at an interest rate of zero, irrespective of what central bankers do - is on the rise amid negative interest rates. Shimachu Co, which operates a chain of stores selling hardware and ...

Down, down prices are down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2016
... making their way into the Australian economy. To be less kind, it's 'mission being accomplished' for all those central bankers trying to cheapen their currencies in order to import growth and export their way out of deflation. But nay, the Bank of Japan ...

ASIC bans ex-NAB planner from the industry

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... executive Andrew Thorburn's public commitment to the comprehensive consumer protection program outlined by the Australian Bankers' Association on April 21. At the time, he said NAB consumers "deserve the peace of mind that our employees are rewarded ...

Banks launch major consumer protection program today

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2016
The Australian Bankers' Association has announced today that banks will immediately commence a comprehensive new program to protect consumers and increase transparency and accountability. The first step will be an independent review of product sales ...

Government boosts ASIC with $127m package

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... industry and we look forward to continued engagement with those we regulate to see Industry Funding work well." Australian Bankers' Association chief executive Steven MA1/4nchenberg also approved the new funding model, arguing that a "well-resourced ...

Regulators defended in calls for Royal Commission

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
... expense of the Australian public," ISA said. ISA said an answer may be to structurally separate banks and super. Australian Bankers' Association Steven MA1/4nchenberg said banks accept that they have not always lived up to their own standards, let alone ...