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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 ...

Plastic debt to reach $48 billion

Consumer borrowing through credit card is predicted to reach just under $48 billion by 2009 prompting calls for tighter government regulation to curb potentially unsustainable borrowing. The inaugural research on credit card debt conducted by market ...

New EFTPOS puts bank in spotlight: First Data

... says the new system has already allowed his business to 'turn tables' much quicker because the technology does the credit card check faster and 'tourist clients' liked the idea of settling the bill in their own currency. And this could be a case of the ...

Australians will pay for ID fraud protection: Unisys

... research firm to conduct telephone surveys of nearly 6,500 people around the world to ask about their banking and credit card concerns. The research revealed that one in five of all survey respondents worried "a lot" about fraud. Nearly half of the Australians ...