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Paulina Duran is a Sydney-based journalist at The Australian covering financial services, with 15 years of experience as a corporate finance, debt and banking specialist. She was previously a senior financial correspondent at Reuters, and has also worked as a reporter at Bloomberg and the Australian Financial Review.

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Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn with CFO Alan Docherty , Source: Supplied

Home loan hardship on the rise: CBA

Commonwealth Bank’s home loan customers facing financial hardship have soared to more than 7000, CEO Matt Comyn said after the bank posted a slight fall in interim profits.

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Inside storyFinancial Services

Nick O'Kane, who owns a $40m Point Piper mansion, is leaving Macquarie Group this month.

From obscurity to $170m paypacket: The phenomenon of Macquarie’s O’Kane

From a flashy trader in the 1990s, Nicholas O’Kane rose through the ranks at Australia’s ‘Millionaire Factory’ and leaves it after amassing $170m-plus in pay over six years.

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BankingFinancial Services

Macquarie CEO Shemara Wikramanayake and incoming head of the commodities and global markets division, Simon Wright.

Macquarie bullish as best-paid banker exits

Macquarie remains upbeat about its outlook as Simon Wright replaces Australia’s highest paid banker Nick O’Kane at the helm of the financial giant’s biggest money-spinning division.

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InvestmentFinancial Services

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos AUGUST 2, 2023: General coverage of the dayÃs key movements on the Australian Stock Exchange at the ASX in central Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Nikki Short

Bloodbath for managed funds as ETFs boom

Australian managed funds haemorrhaged a record net $31bn in 2023 and the wound is set to deepen with the $177bn exchange-traded fund industry poised to triple in size this decade.

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MarketsMarkets

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA: Newswire Photos- NOVEMBER 07 2023: A general view of the digital boards at the ASX in Sydney as the Reserve Bank meets today to discuss another rate rise. Photo by: NCA Newswire /Gaye Gerard

Reality check for dream of soft landing

The Australian sharemarket hangs in the balance this week as a wave of major earnings reports could either solidify hopes of a soft landing or trigger turbulence.

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SuperannuationFinancial Services

03/11/2022. Your super: Members matter most. Moderator: Ticky Fullerton, Business Editor at Large, The Australian Business Review. Paul Schroder, Chief Executive, AustralianSuper. Margaret Cole, Deputy Chair, Australian Prudential Regulation Authority. Xavier OÃHalloran, Director, Super Consumers Australia. Jane Eccleston, Senior Executive Leader, Superannuation, ASIC. ASIC Annual Forum 2022 held at the Hilton hotel in Sydney. Britta Campion / The Australian

AusSuper pushing for an ‘account for life’

The country’s largest super fund is urging the Albanese government to combine accumulation and retirement accounts into a single superannuation ‘account for life’.

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EXCLUSIVEFinancial Services

Revolut local boss Matt Baxby. Source: Supplied.

Revolut’s growing ambitions in credit, banking

British fintech Revolut is planning to launch credit cards in Australia and boost unsecured lending, as cash-strapped households turn to debt to cover expenses.

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Financial ServicesFinancial Services

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Insignia taps former AMP boss to ‘accelerate strategy’

Scott Hartley has a big job ahead of him at the wealth manager, amid a hefty drop in adviser numbers and persistent outflows.

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Financial servicesFinancial Services

Bankers and super workers want AI

Workers across superannuation and investments want access to generative AI tools to boost efficiency and productivity, tech chiefs in those sectors say.

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BankingFinancial Services

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Red flags: Westpac rolls out financial abuse alerts

Suspicious payments will be flagged across 150,000 Westpac accounts with power of attorney arrangements as part of a new alert system to tackle financial abuse.

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