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Mortgage arrears at five-year high: Moody’s

by Reporter • 19 Sep 2017
According to the ratings service, the 30+ delinquency rate rose to 1.62 per cent in May 2017, up from 1.50 per cent... READ MORE

Credit ratings on the up for Liberty Financial

by Lucy Dean • 15 Sep 2017
The Liberty Series 2015-1 SME is a securitisation of loans to commercial clients which is secured by mortgages over... READ MORE

Political 'tit for tat' destructive in the Sydney housing debate

by Tim Neary • 14 Sep 2017
The council said that the “wash up” of the local government elections has seen a series of sound bites on... READ MORE

‘Power’ of established banks a ‘barrier’ for SMEs

by Lucy Dean • 8 Sep 2017
Kate Carnell, Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), has welcomed steps taken by the... READ MORE

Mortgage industry forum preparing policy solutions

by Reporter • 4 Sep 2017
The mortgage industry forum is composed of the Australian Bankers’ Association (ABA), Finance Brokers Association... READ MORE

Challenger bank working on commercial turnaround times

by Reporter • 1 Sep 2017
Speaking at ING DIRECT’s broker roadshow in Sydney last week, Adriana Sheedy, ING DIRECT’s executive director of... READ MORE

Loan Market challenges borrowers’ ‘blind loyalty’ to banks

by Lucy Dean • 30 Aug 2017
Peter Camphin, Queensland state director of Loan Market, told The Adviser that rural borrowers often have... READ MORE

‘Limited’ recourse for borrowers once mortgage discharged

by Lucy Dean • 29 Aug 2017
In the recent case Australian Securities Ltd v Borina Pty Ltd, the Supreme Court found that after borrowers have paid... READ MORE

Major banks abolish unfair SME contract terms

by Lucy Dean • 24 Aug 2017
The agreement was made with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and the Family Enterprise... READ MORE

More investors sacrificing lifestyle to buy property

by Julianne Leybag • 16 Aug 2017
According to Mortgage Choice’s Investor Survey, 71 per cent of property investors had to make lifestyle sacrifices... READ MORE

Australia Post 'excited' about the mortgages market

by Reporter • 16 Aug 2017
Following the announcement that credit union CUA had become the first lender to trial Australia Post’s new digital... READ MORE

'We have done enough' on mortgage curbs, says RBA

by James Mitchell • 11 Aug 2017
Addressing questions at the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics in Melbourne on 11 August, RBA... READ MORE

Asian banks lead foreign share of business loan approvals

by Lucy Dean • 11 Aug 2017
In its statement on monetary policy for the June 2017 quarter, the RBA noted that the major banks’ share of new... READ MORE

Commercial funder banking on ‘old-fashioned’ service

by James Mitchell • 4 Aug 2017
For more than a decade, Equity-One has kept its core product “intentionally simple”, said founder and managing... READ MORE

Westpac cracks down on borrower expenses

by Lucy Dean • 1 Aug 2017
The revised approval procedure is backdated to include all applications submitted from 7 July 2017 and will apply to... READ MORE
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