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Clancy Yeates is deputy business editor. He has covered banking and financial services, and was previously national business correspondent in the Canberra bureau.

Banks are tracking your every click. It could save you thousands

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.

  • by Clancy Yeates

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The one player fuelling the $148b bank bonanza
Opinion
Big four

The one player fuelling the $148b bank bonanza

The surge in bank shares this year has been truly enormous. But if booming profits aren’t driving the great bank share rally, what is?

  • by Clancy Yeates
CBA caves in to pressure over plan to charge $3 for branch withdrawals

CBA caves in to pressure over plan to charge $3 for branch withdrawals

Facing a backlash, the bank has paused a move that would have led to about 50,000 extra customers charged for withdrawing cash from branches.

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey, Millie Muroi and Clancy Yeates
Do the changes to Australia’s $230 billion giant mean anything?
Opinion
Investing

Do the changes to Australia’s $230 billion giant mean anything?

Some argue the new mandate for the taxpayer-owned Future Fund won’t change that much. But if that’s the case, then why do it?

  • by Clancy Yeates
Super funds warned over delays in assessing life insurance claims

Super funds warned over delays in assessing life insurance claims

ASIC believes the scale of alleged failings at $94-billion super fund Cbus are a broader industry issue, and it’s flagged there could be more “enforcement action to follow”.

  • by Sumeyya Ilanbey and Clancy Yeates
Afterpay billionaires say Australia is well on its way to a cashless future

Afterpay billionaires say Australia is well on its way to a cashless future

Nick Molnar and Anthony Eisen built an empire by detecting and responding to major shifts in financial behaviour. So their views on the immediate future carry weight.

  • by Clancy Yeates
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Banks spend billions on tech, so why are outages still a thing?

Banks spend billions on tech, so why are outages still a thing?

You are not imagining it: the overall impact of banks’ technology glitches hasn’t really improved, despite their deep pockets.

  • by Clancy Yeates
Why those pesky card surcharges are no longer doing their job
Opinion
Payments

Why those pesky card surcharges are no longer doing their job

Extra fees for paying on a card have annoyed consumers for years. Now there’s a compelling case for making significant changes to the surcharging regime.

  • by Clancy Yeates
Would banks use Reserve Bank rate cuts to claw back a bit extra from savers?

Would banks use Reserve Bank rate cuts to claw back a bit extra from savers?

Savers beware: some analysts think that when interest rates fall, banks will try to cut rates on savings accounts by more than the RBA’s reductions.

  • by Clancy Yeates
Frugal response to tax cuts should be music to Reserve Bank’s ears
Opinion
Retail

Frugal response to tax cuts should be music to Reserve Bank’s ears

The lack of a tax-cut-induced spending spree shows consumers have well and truly got the message about tightening their spending.

  • by Clancy Yeates
‘Chilling effect:’ Business heavyweights send an economic warning to Canberra

‘Chilling effect:’ Business heavyweights send an economic warning to Canberra

Business titans said the rising populist tone in public debate is a danger to the economy as they faced Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at a high-powered event on Tuesday night.

  • by Clancy Yeates

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