Posts tagged "banking"

Finance sector upstart Avenue Bank has been granted a full operational licence, allowing the venture to reveal its core product: a streamlined bank guarantee system, promising small and medium enterprises a better service than the Big Four currently provide.

For price gouging by supermarkets, there’s not a lot the government can do, apart from launching an inquiry. But for banks, it’s altogether different.

Informed by a survey of gen Z and Y respondents aged 18 to 34, Up's Hi-Fi product aims to help young Australians reach their financial goals.

Businesses, councils, and banking representatives will speak at public hearings held by the Senate Standing Committee on Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport.

Small business lender Judo Bank says its new forays into automation and artificial intelligence will provide customers with insights they could not gain on their own, as the scale-up challenges "industrialised" SME loans offered by the Big Four.

Square now allows Australian merchants to accept payments on Android smartphones, extending the reach of the next-generation payments technology on home soil and the offerings of a company synonymous with physical card readers.

Entrepreneurs are set to gain near-instant access to transaction accounts and physical debit cards without ever entering a bank branch, under an ambitious plan Zeller hopes will expand its market.

The good news for potential customers is in a market where interest rates are increasing the banks may be prepared to cut deals to win your business.

The federal Treasurer has an obligation to disclose how Labor will deal with its multimillion-dollar stake in Suncorp, writes Stephen Mayne.

ANZ has chosen an unusual route to gain clearance from the ACCC for its Suncorp acquisition, opting to go through a formal authorisation process that means public benefit will also be considered.

Volt on Wednesday confirmed the "difficult decision" to end its deposit-taking functions and return all deposits to its customers.

Swoop, a global online funding platform for SMEs and advisors, aims to further expand into the Australian and global markets.