Commonwealth Bank
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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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
‘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
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
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”.
Banks are tracking your every click. It could save you thousands
As banks fight back against scammers, changes as minor as how you move a mouse on a computer screen can be a clue to a suspicious transaction.
- Clancy Yeates
Why big banks will have a target on their back next year
Australia’s banking sector is in rude health as far as the public is concerned and that could potentially land it in trouble in an election year.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
Activists keep pressure on big banks despite $10b cut in fossil fuel lending
An analysis of banks’ environmental, social and governance strategies comes as a deadline looms for businesses to provide climate transition plans to one bank or risk losing finance.
- Sumeyya Ilanbey
ACU is an educational institution, not a church
Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher’s attempt to theocratise the Australian Catholic University must fail.
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