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While CBA maintains its lead as the nation’s largest lender, the bank has been looking at ways to push back against Macquarie’s pursuit of mortgage holders through the broker channel

CBA opens fresh front in mortgage wars

Commonwealth Bank subsidiary Bankwest is gearing up to take on Macquarie and ING in lending to “under serviced” Australians.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey

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While Albo considers a life in the margins.

Making a call that bank shares will fall is a risky business.

Is this pop the sound of the bank share bubble bursting?

It feels like investors have finally woken up to the fact that bank share prices have been unfathomably overvalued for a year.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Football Australia CEO James Johnson and Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn in 2021 as they announced that the bank had become the naming rights partner for the Matildas.

One question made the CBA boss flinch – and it wasn’t about profit

Matildas captain Sam Kerr’s legal fight in Britain is a prickly and polarising issue, and it was kryptonite for Matt Comyn.

  • Elizabeth Knight
CBA boss Matt Comyn.

Australia’s economy is slowly turning the corner, CBA boss says

CBA beat expectations with its first-half result, and CEO Matt Comyn sees relief for home loan customers relief imminent with the RBA expected to cut rates next week.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Last year, banks enjoyed a ‘safe haven’ status in the market which saw their share prices surge. But this trend could reverse with likely successive rate cuts in 2025.

Rate cuts are on the horizon. Will it spell gloom for big banks?

Banks upheld their “safe haven” status in the market last year, and share prices surged – but could rate cuts reverse this trend and make it tougher for banks in 2025?

  • Cindy Yin
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The Commonwealth Bank will relax its lending rules for prefabricated homes, which are being constructed at Modscape’s factory in Essendon Fields before being transported.

Banks urged to ease lending rules for flat-pack homes

Building houses from prefabricated parts could reduce construction costs, but financing challenges have held the industry back.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Banks have called out Facebook’s parent company, Meta, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, for shunning its responsibility in fighting scams.

‘Enough is enough’: Banks ramp up attack on tech giants over scams

Australian banks have called out Meta for enabling scammers to use its social media platforms to lure victims and facilitate money laundering.

  • Sumeyya Ilanbey
Surcharges are increasingly being added for card payments – but Australia’s biggest bank wants them scrapped.

Qantas, Virgin warn of higher prices if card surcharges banned

The airline duopoly has defended card surcharges, saying they give customers choice and keep prices low.

  • Millie Muroi
A productivity-enhancing reform agenda ought to be the focus in this year’s political campaigns.

Back to (or building) the future?

It is both ironic and appropriate that Peter Dutton has chosen to copy the New Zealand Nationals’ election slogan of “Back on track”.

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