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CUSCAL on track for 20 per cent profit growth

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2005
... to look outside for new customers," Gilbert says. CUSCAL provides back office services such as cheque processing and home loan securitisation, as well as charging annual fees, for its 150 member credit unions. "We have continued to reduce costs significantly. ...

RBA delivers Christmas cheer to homeowners

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2004
... to release consumer confidence figures, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics will publish its latest update on home loan figures. The RBA board will next meet in February to consider whether to rise interest rates or not. Economists expect the RBA ...

Debt collection protection

With the levels of personal and household debt on the rise, ASIC and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) have jointly released a manual defining their respective roles in the regulation of debt collection. While both bodies recognise ...

GE Money picks up Wizard

GE Money Australia and New Zealand (GE Money) has acquired the Australian Financial Investments Group (AFIG), parent company of Wizard Home Loans (Wizard), from ABN AMRO. Wizard has continued to grow under ABN AMBRO offering financial solutions for ...

ANZ stays quiet on Wizard bid speculation

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2004
The ANZ Banking Group remained tightlipped on Thursday about rumours that it is poised to bid for mortgage originator Wizard Home Loans Group. ANZ, Australia's third biggest bank, would not confirm or deny that it was considering a bid for Wizard. "We ...

ASIC shuts down loan calculators

... software company Infochoice, compare standard loans with lines of credit to suggest the latter could be used to pay off a home loan more quickly, an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) spokesman said. "Most lines of credit charge ...

APRA releases changes to home loan risk-weighting

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) yesterday released revised criteria for authorised deposittaking institutions (ADIs) to qualify for the concessional oncessional riskweighting of residential mortgage lending for capital adequacy ...

Home loans group calls on government to support reverse mortgage

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2004
The federal government should consider helping Australian retirees with inadequate superannuation by supporting reverse mortgages, a specialist home loans group said today. Bluestone Equity Release, a subsidiary of non-conforming lender Bluestone Group ...

Pioneer appoints Weiser MD

Pioneer Mortgage Services have announced the appointment of Charles Weiser to the position of managing director overseeing the company's continued expansion in the Australasian lending market. Weiser joins Pioneer Mortgage Services from RAMS' Home Loans ...

CBA delivers bumper annual profit

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2004
... David Murray said the bank had put in a strong performance and the impact of a housing slowdown on Australia\'s biggest home loan lender so far had been \"muted\". \"There has been solid growth in the underlying profit as a result of significant business ...