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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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
The just released National Australian Bank Monthly Business Survey for December 2006 has noted that although business conditions remain strong there has been some softening from the strong levels reported in the previous quarter. NAB says that weaker ...

Banks to brace for bumpier ride: Fitch

Global ratings agency Fitch Ratings predicts that the earnings growth of the country's largest banks will likely be 'moderate' this year compared to last year due to increased competition for the consumer dollar and lesser housing finance deals. "For ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... leading up to these reports," Mr Muller said. The major banking stocks were all up about 1.5 per cent with National Australian Bank lifting 53 cents to $37.62, Commonwealth Bank finding 75 cents to $46.70, ANZ putting on 37 cents to $227.40 and Westpac ...

Star ratings on staff? Only in China

The third largest bank in China, the Bank of China (BOC), has introduced the penultimate in 'customer satisfaction' surveys, asking customers to rate individual banking employees on the spot with a one-star to five-star rating based on service level. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
The monthly survey of business confidence by NAB fell four points in August to a score of six having apparently peaked in March of this year at 14. The three components of the index were down with the sales index falling one point, the profitability ...

DeAM chases alpha in fixed income

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... Australian corporate securities, Australian high yield securities and cash and is benchmarked against the UBS Australian Bank Bill Index, targeting outperformance of 2-2.5 per cent. The fund will also allocate to both the Deutsche Global Credit Fund ...