OPINION: Fresh warnings from the Reserve Bank of Australia about the nation’s love affair with debt suggest that the problem originated years before lenders felt the long arm of APRA.

The major bank is confident that the cash rate will be lifted by 50 basis points next year, reversing the rate cuts of 2016.

A Sydney man has been permanently banned by ASIC from financial services and credit in connection with property and SMSF spruiking.

Data from SQM Research has revealed that vacancy rates nationwide are generally trending while asking rates are trending up, with Hobart benefiting the most.

The Australian banking industry has developed what it calls a “recipe for a successful open banking regime” to radically change the customer banking experience.

Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is worried about what will happen to highly leveraged Australian households when rates return to “normal” levels.

LMI provider Genworth announced this week that it has extended its contract with NAB for the provision of mortgage insurance to the major bank’s third-party business.

The Commonwealth Bank has announced the sale of CommInsure and Sovereign to AIA as well as a "strategic review" of Colonial First State Global Asset Management.

Investing in bitcoin is “incredibly dangerous and very speculative”, warns Magellan’s Hamish Douglass, but the technology underpinning it could be “revolutionary”.

Senator Nick Xenophon has revealed that he will help introduce legislation in 2018 that will change APRA's mandate to include competition, and require it to consider the differences in the housing market when bringing in macro-prudential measures.