NAB CEO Andrew Irvine shared a rosy assessment of the outlook before the House Economics Committee yesterday. “Things are getting better” Irvine said. “I’m not saying there aren’t areas of concern but ...

The Regional Banking Investment Alliance has finally put a cost to their proposal for a cost sharing model to support regional bank branches.

ANZ’s group-wide Root Cause Analysis of its lacklustre management of non-financial risk – shared with APRA in early July 2025, and hidden until now – is, inevitably, a confronting read. Finally ...

The costs of managing non-financial risk can only escalate at ANZ, given the complexity and the bureaucracy proposed around the execution of ANZ’s Root Cause Remediation Plan.

Westpac says it will extend its branch closure moratorium in regional areas to 2030. The bank will also pilot “a new ...

“We expect sabotage, particularly cyber-enabled sabotage, to pose an increasing threat in the next five years – both in terms of adversary capability and adversary intent” Burgess said.

Westpac’s new lending volumes are up in November. And the Australian banking industry is in one of the biggest credit booms it has ever seen.