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Australians at ease with debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... make sure you compare interest rates, fees and charges. Pay off the debt with the highest interest first, such as a credit card and make extra repayments on loans where you can," Clitheroe said. Half of respondents said they needed to learn more about ...

Lifestyle banking at your service

BankWest joins the growing list of banks and wealth management firms eager to retain customers and win new ones by providing finance-related services in a more relaxed setting, complete with a place to read, cafe and even a mini-shop to buy office stationery. ...

Westpac jumps in to save RAMS

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
Westpac has thrown a lifeline to troubled home loan lender RAMS Home Loans, offering to buy the franchise distribution arm for $140 million in cash. The purchase will include the RAMS brand, franchise network and associated mortgage origination, servicing ...

Credit crunch driving recession fears

SUZY MAC IS ON LEAVE  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
The US sub-prime crisis is stretching its tentacles across the globe and is starting to reach mortgage borrowers as far afield as Australia and in the UK. Not because these countries have a sub-prime problem per se but because the US wholesale credit ...

Mobile banking the next frontier

... new functionalities are the option to receive a text message for unusual transactions charged against the customer's credit card and the option for that customer to instruct the bank by text to 'freeze' the card if the transaction was unauthorised. "Clearly ...

Customer satisfaction is a measure of indifference

... points of home loan market share during the year, 30 basis points in household deposits and 1.5 percentage points of credit card share. The Sheet

Cuscal branches outside credit unions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... principal membership of Visa International and the strategic alliance with Citigroup for the provision of a MasterCard credit card. "Access to these payment mechanisms and card schemes is further enhanced through bilateral agreements with all of the ...

AMP loses share to banks in risk insurance

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2007
AMP chief executive Andrew Mohl acknowledged yesterday that life companies faced a challenge from the banks in one of their traditional strongholds, the risk insurance market. Mohl also announced he would leave AMP at the end of 2007 after five years ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
... points to 6,298. In economic news, Reserve Bank of Australia assistant governor Philip Lowe will deliver a speech on credit card reform in Sydney today. St George Bank will hold a shareholder meeting, as will Destra Corporation Ltd, Macquarie Goodman ...

Symantec warns on tax time cybercrime

... of unsuspecting individuals received emails purportedly from the Australian Tax Office (ATO) requesting for their credit card details. Matthew Drake, director of consumer sales for Symantec Australia, said that one of the ways that financial planners ...