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Virgin Money drops out of cards

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... stop using the Virgin name. Virgin has lost a customer base that it hoped to use to cross-sell its superannuation and home loan products. If it wants to stay in credit cards it will have to start from scratch next year. Virgin Money chief executive David ...

Macquarie shuts down US mortgage operation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
A week after Macquarie Bank announced its decision to get out of the Australian mortgage market, the group's US subsidiary Macquarie Mortgages Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, wrote to brokers informing them that it would no longer be accepting applications ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... with challengers to the dominance of the largest banks. Over the last six years Macquarie expanded its share of the home loan market by almost half and was one of the few challengers - along with ING Direct, Rams, and Adelaide Bank - to achieve consistent ...

Aviva breaks industry fund hurdle

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... property, pairing up with Wizard Home Loans and Salaris Consulting to provide Navigator Business Super members with no home loan application fees and better salary packaging options. "Those things are more tangible to them and they can understand that ...

Macq launches Property Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... Macquarie Bank would sell the asset to repay the loan and return the surplus to the SMSF trustee, just like a conventional home loan. Dean Firth, executive director at Macquarie Relationship Banking, said the Property Lever complied with the Superannuation ...

Why only bank fees in government sights?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... strategy, Treasurer Wayne Swan decided to get involved to force banks to make it easier for consumers to swap between home loan providers and put some downward competitive pressure on mortgage interest rates. "Strong competition in the financial services ...

Yellow Brick Road leads to Calliva

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
Advice and investment management company, Yellow Brick Road, has begun its spending spree purchasing financial planning firm Calliva Wealth. Sean Aylmer, head of communications and research at Yellow Brick Road, said the company has spent the last six ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower as US stocks plunged overnight on the back of a record quarterly loss at top US bank Citigroup Inc and a surprise drop in US December retail sales. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0805 AEDT, the ...

Not much of a fix from the freeze

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... over the virtue and mechanics of the planned "freezing" of loan interest rates for several hundred thousand distressed home loan borrowers in the US. The US government formally outlined the plan this morning without adding too many details to those reported ...

Securitised assets get RAMmed

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
Just as RAMS Home Loans Group chairman announced the home lender was no longer a going concern, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released new figures confirming that securitised asset levels in Australia are contracting on the back of the ...