The Full Federal Court has allowed an appeal by digital asset service provider Block Earner, finding that Block Earner did not need a financial services licence to offer its digital asset-related ...

AFCA has found Commonwealth Bank liable to compensate an elderly couple $71,000 following a series of unauthorised transactions conducted by their daughter. One of the couple was aged over 80 and ...

Members of Bank Australia and Qudos Bank have endorsed the merger between the two mutual banks. Bank Australia said 91 per cent of members voting voted in favour, while at Qudos Bank it was 78 per ...

Expansion of the Home Guarantee Scheme, as proposed by the Labor Party, may render the lenders mortgage insurance segment redundant, and raise doubts around the viability of mortgage-backed securities ...

Bank branches “remain in demand” the 2025 Consumer Banking Report from Accenture shows. Accenture said of 1500 surveyed in Australia “71% like seeing branches in their neighbourhood as it confirms ...

The Full Court of the Federal Court has upheld an earlier ruling that Sunshine Loans, a provider of small amount credit contracts, charged prohibited fees over a four-year period. In April 2024, the ...

Banks and financial services firms will need to maintain a dashboard on Reportable Situations and Internal Dispute Resolution data – as soon as the second half of 2025. The proposed dashboard would be ...

A group of 19 regional and rural mutual banks are ramping up a campaign for major banks to made subject to a levy that would be funnelled to smaller banks to subsidise the cost of their atypically ...