Charbel Kadib

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Charbel Kadib is the news editor on the mortgages titles at Momentum Media. Before joining the team in 2017, Charbel completed internships with public relations agency Fifty Acres, and the Department of Communications and the Arts. You can email Charbel on: [email protected]

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Bank lowers LVR cap for owner-occupied lending

Lender

Bank lowers LVR cap for owner-occupied lending

24 June 2020 • Hits: 3401

A non-major lender has reduced its risk appetite in response to market conditions, lowering its maximum LVR for lending ...Read More

mortgage deferral risks

Economy

RMBS backstops to ease mortgage deferral risks

24 June 2020 • Hits: 2529

Liquidity reserves and interest rate buffers built into Australia’s RMBS transactions will provide lenders with an add...Read More

Immigration slump to create gaping hole in housing demand

Economy

Immigration slump to create gaping hole in housing demand

23 June 2020 • Hits: 2976

A COVID-induced drop-off in immigration volumes is set to have “big implications” on underlying demand for residenti...Read More

cash

Economy

Bank drawdowns on $90bn TFF dry up

23 June 2020 • Hits: 2799

Australia’s banks have only utilised approximately 14 per cent of the Reserve Bank’s $90-billion term funding facili...Read More

Bank hikes mortgage rates by up to 40 bps

Economy

Bank hikes mortgage rates by up to 40 bps

22 June 2020 • Hits: 2843

A lender has lifted rates by up to 40 bps across both its owner-occupied and investment home loan products amid cuts fro...Read More

Job losses soar beyond expectations

Economy

Job losses soar beyond expectations

19 June 2020 • Hits: 1486

The unemployment rate has exceeded 7 per cent for the first time in almost 20 years, after over 200,000 Australians lost...Read More

ASIC and APRA

Lender

APRA defers Westpac investigation to ASIC

19 June 2020 • Hits: 2662

The prudential regulator has handed over its investigation of Westpac’s alleged breaches of the Corporation Act and th...Read More

Big banks cash in on cashbacks

Economy

Big banks cash in on cashbacks

18 June 2020 • Hits: 2791

The major banks have nabbed the vast bulk of home lending flows in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, thanks to an influx ...Read More

APRA

Property

APRA scraps property revaluation requirements

18 June 2020 • Hits: 2496

Lenders using the standardised approach to credit risk will no longer be required to revalue property offered as a secur...Read More

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