australian banks

After a tough 2018 the Aussie banks have bounced back thanks to a loosening of lending restrictions from APRA and a surprise election win by the Coalition. But should...

Five years of price consolidation, a possible bottoming of the housing market, and the unexpected return of the coalition government have mitigated some of the key...

The ASX All Ordinaries index jumped to an 11-year high immediately after the Coalition won the recent Federal Election. It was boosted in particular by share price...

First regulators capped how much banks can lend to homeowners. Now, it appears it will be up to the banks to set the limit. Bankers being bankers, they will likely up...

Australia’s four major banks have now reported their interim results. Common to all of them were three key themes, which are presenting both challenges and...

The recent bank reporting season was highly anticipated as it was the first since the Banking Royal Commission final report. Although these results were impacted by...

Last week, the National Australia Bank (ASX:NAB) released details of the customer remediation charges it expects to take in its 2019 interim result following the Royal...

NAB has today announced after-tax remediation costs of $525m (91% wealth-related and the balance being banking-related) that will reduce 1H19 cash earnings by $325m...

Market liquidity and company profits are the twin engines of a bull market. So with liquidity draining, will profit growth be enough to sustain the market? We asked...

Forecast for shares income, including from the banks, remains solid. For the “glass half empty” thinkers, there is plenty of bad news to focus on in 2019 – the Trump...

2019 is just a few months away. So when we sat down with Natalie Tam, Investment Director at Aberdeen Standard Investments, we took the opportunity to ask her what...

Numerous academic and industry research papers support the view that effective corporate governance has a significant impact on the performance of that company as an...

Financials are deeply unpopular given the fallout from the Royal Banking Commission, pending legal actions and the prospect of being a political football into the 2019...

Australia has had a multi-decade love affair with credit, where we've gone from households being quite under-leveraged because we had financial regulation and credit...

While you may not follow movements in the bank bill swap rate (BBSW), right now they are worth paying attention to. You see, rates are on the rise. And that means the...