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Virgin motors on with new chief

Virgin Money has appointed NRMA's David Wakeley as its new chief executive officer two months after the resignation of founding chief Rohan Gamble. "We were somewhat overwhelmed by the number of applications we had to wade through for the role and in ...

Fin literacy won't happen overnight, but it will happen: Clitheroe

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
Paul Clitheroe, chair of the Financial Literacy Task Force, believes improving financial literacy is a 20 year project. Being a long term project, he said, it starts in the home, should be taught in schools and, above all, needs to be demonstrated through ...

David Jones adds more financial services to shopping list

... David Jones. Chief executive officer, Mark McInnes, has said at the interim results announcement last week that its credit card business posted a 7.9 per cent increase in earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) to $16.3 million in the first half of 2006 ...

Virgin home loan spices up mortgage lending

... option and savings of over $25,000. Virgin Money shook the banking industry three years ago with its low rate, zero fee credit card. It hopes to do the same thing again in mortgages. Virgin Home Loan is designed to undercut the major banks with a low ...

Virgin Money on the hunt for new CEO

... hired Rohan Gamble as a strategy consultant four years ago to research whether there is an opportunity for a low-cost credit card product in Australia. Gamble's answer at the time was a "resounding yes" after which Branson appointed him as Virgin Money ...

Daily economic update

Today's updates on Australian business conditions and retail activity reinforce current market thinking for steady domestic interest rates in the near term. The National Australia Bank's (NAB) business conditions index fell to 11 in the fourth quarter ...

Daily Economic Update

... November, December and January were the lowest comparative monthly results in three years. Relatively higher credit rates (credit card and mortgage), weak housing and high petrol prices slowed activity in discretionary sectors which include retail, wholesale ...

ME Bank profit surges but needs to lend more

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2006
... 2005, but its profitability and return on equity will continue to suffer unless it can grow its personal loans and credit card book faster. Net profit after tax of $1.71 million for the year to September 2005 was nearly 12-fold higher than $144,000 in ...

Daily economic update

... commitments. The ABS report also shows personal lending on a clear downtrend (as Australians continue to pay down credit card debt) but this is being offset by a strong pick up in trend growth in business lending. Overseas, inflation news out of the ...

Unisys and Centricom launch enhanced secure online transaction system

Unisys continues its march into Australian wealth management by partnering with Centricom to jointly launch a secure online payments management system. The initiative sees Unisys provide the business processing back-end for the online debit payment ...