ASIC staffing will increase by 17 per cent over the 2025/2026 financial year, last night’s budget papers show. Average staffing levels at ASIC next year are expected to be 2555, up from 2188 this ...

Bermuda-based insurer Arch appears to be the party engaged in exclusive talks with Commonwealth Bank over replacing Helia as sole provider of lenders mortgage insurance. Helia yesterday morning did ...

Extraordinary. The merger implementation booklet for the proposed merger of Bank Australia with Qudos Bank reveals a perplexing revision of Bank Australia’s Aspiration and Vision. From: To be ...

For poorly explained reasons, the Australian government is setting out to develop “licensing frameworks for digital asset industry participants and payments providers that will help improve the risk ...

The Bulk Electronic Clearing System should not be closed until “a ubiquitous batch service is available for all payments” the industry lobby Independent Payments Forum Australia argues in a response ...

APRA says it is reviewing the thresholds used to distinguish between significant financial institutions and non-significant financial institutions “that benefit from simpler and lower requirements in ...

Nathan Goonan, chief financial officer at NAB has quit and will take up the CFO role at Westpac later this year. Goonan replaces current Westpac CFO Michael Rowland, who will retire from the bank.