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Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
The Australian stock market has been buoyed by a big cut in interest rates in the United States which has helped ease fears that the US economy could slip into recession. In early trading today, the Australian stock market had lifted by more than two ...

Industry groups get smart

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
The Australian Bankers' Association (ABA), Financial Planning Association (FPA) and the Investment & Financial Services Association (IFSA) have updated their consumer financial literacy guide - Smarter Super - Invest in your future and make the most ...

Four pillars policy no longer relevant

Westpac chief executive David Morgan has lambasted the government's 'four pillars policy', suggesting it would only make the country's four largest banks, Commonwealth Bank, ANZ, NAB and Westpac more vulnerable to foreign ownership. Speaking at the ...

Economic round- up: Cutting the apron strings

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
It would be an understatement to say that Australian banks have been doing well, but there are increasing murmurs among banking analysts that the market is overpriced and exposed to an increased risk of bad debts. While so far this year Australian banks ...

Kiwibank fined over lack of disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
New Zealand government-owned bank Kiwibank yesterday pleaded guilty to breaching the Fair Trading Act while a banking group recently appointed as a KiwiSaver default fund is also under investigation. The case concerns banks which failed to properly ...

Adelaide Bank goes mobile with Microsoft

... they meet the different needs of its executives, senior managers and business development managers. The South Australian bank is making an aggressive push to provide banking services around the country. It has grown its asset base from just over $2 billion ...

BankWest goes east

From the west coast to the east coast, leading Western Australian bank BankWest continues its push into markets outside its Perth homebase when it announced that its head of retail sales will relocate to Sydney. Head of Retail Sales Mark Reid will move ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia will spend about $50 million in advertising to turn around poor customer satisfaction scores which have apparently been a consequence of the inadequate timeliness in addressing customer needs. While market research ...

Polaris eyes the big banks

One of India's largest software companies, Polaris, is set to launch new IT products in Australia aimed at helping the major banks save up to 30 per cent on their software development and maintenance costs. "Australian banks were one of the early adopters ...