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Lo-doc lending headaches

Are lo-doc loans too high maintenance? While the Big Four banks have all jumped on the lo-doc bandwagon, consulting firm Deloitte said other finance groups are starting to question the business model behind non-conforming loans. Lo-doc loans or non-conforming ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

... the topic alongside former BRW deputy editor Robert Skeffington. "Justification for blocking outright mergers among the big four banks must be tested. Competition is strong, the availability of capital is plentiful and the costs of allowing Australian ...

Foreign banks lag locals, but for how long?

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2006
... banks in Australia, local banks accounted for 93 per cent of this. And of the bank profits earned by local banks, the big four accounted for 82 per cent. Foreign subsidiary banks - of which there are 10 in Australia - recorded a return on assets of 0.8 ...

Aviva badges First Capital for $250 million

... providing badges was very important to building a solid relationship with financial planning groups who are not owned by the big four banks. "Aviva has always positioned itself as the home of non-aligned for financial advisory groups. We see our role ...

Specialist investment managers not prominent in retail marketing

... investment managers as different from the big players in the industry such as fund management companies owned by the 'big four' banks and the two largest insurers by their focus on wholesale investors, lack of ownership of large financial planning networks ...

Complete makeover for Fiducian team

... national manager of a large financial planning group. Most recently he was an executive manager at one of the nation's big four banks in its Margin Lending Division. Nicholson says, "At Fiducian we are developing an industry best practice development ...

In the end it's all about relationships

... Currently 22.8 per cent of SMEs are changing banks within a six-month period compared with 15.6 per cent of corporates. The big four are responding by focusing on SMEs and micro businesses as well as cross sell initiatives and deepening their existing ...

Big four banks fail to dominate in business service survey

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUN 2004
Only one of Australia's big four banks made the top five in a new survey ranking banks on their relationships with big business. And the bank with the best relationships with Australia's biggest companies is France's BNP Paribas, according the survey ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2004
... good profit result as the Australian stock market nudged its way into positive territory despite a fall by most of the big four banks. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index was up 8.9 points at 3391.2, and the all ordinaries index was 10.4 points higher at ...

Building approvals slide for second month in a row

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2004
... raising interest rates at its first meeting for the year. Most economists are tipping rates to stay on hold, but the big four banks expect another 0.25 percentage point rate rise to be announced tomorrow. Today's figures show most of the fall was due ...