Westpac plans to hire 350 bankers and turn more to artificial intelligence as it ramps up business lending.
Daniel Newell
ANZ is mulling a reduction in headcount by as many as 5,000 people as part of a wider restructure under chief executive officer Nuno Matos, according to a report by Capital Brief.
Adam Haigh
Warnbro resident John Wootton was delighted when the State Government announced the solar battery rebate scheme. That euphoria soon faded when his loan application was rejected without explanation.
Nick Bruining
As the curtain comes down on the 2025 earnings season, analysts are bewildered at the extreme reaction of investors to profit hits and misses.
Sean Smith
The big banks took some shine off the Aussie sharemarket’s record run on Monday, pulling the market down from a fresh intraday high.
Duncan Evans
Up’s customer numbers leapt 29 per cent to 1.2 million in the 2025 financial year, fuelling an 11 per cent jump across the Bendigo group to 2.9 million customers.
West Australians may finally be starting to feel the financial relief of three rounds of interest rate cuts this year but they remain cautious about spending the windfall on big-budget holidays.
Millions of Australian mortgage holders will start saving, as major banks begin rolling out the RBA’s third interest-rate cut of the cycle.
Cameron Micallef
WA small businesses are holding firm to expectations of a full recovery in consumer sentiment this year as fresh spending data suggests green shoots might be emerging.
Cheyanne Enciso
Commonwealth Bank will reverse its controversial plan to cut dozens of jobs and replace them with an AI chatbot, admitting the move was a mistake.
Amy Lee
ANZ’s new boss Nuno Matos has given free career advice to young professionals during his first visit to Perth.
NAB says it will spend $130m for the 2025 financial year on the underpayments review and remediation, but that amount could go even higher.
Banking giant NAB faces a massive $130m bill after discovering more payroll system errors, including the underpayment of wages to staff.
Why are WA retirees — some with millions of dollars in assets and significant regular incomes — unable to get a credit card, a basic necessity in the digital age where most business is now conducted online?
Swifties have been warned of scammers trying to cash in on Taylor Swift’s new album with fake pre-orders, leaked downloads and dodgy merch.
Emma Kirk
One of Australia’s largest companies has been fined $15m for failing to answer customers in financial hardship.
Blair Jackson
The era of significant pay rises may be over, as Aussies face a wage slowdown and a “bump in the road” for the labour market.
Blake Antrobus
Australia’s biggest home lender revealed fixed pay for its senior executives was increased between 4.5 per cent and 16.7 per cent in the 2025 financial year.
Commonwealth Bank has posted a mammoth $10.25bn profit, crediting the record figures to this trend in Aussie households.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s full-year profit met estimates as loan growth and a buoyant property market supported the country’s biggest lender.
Australia’s major banks are responding to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate call, passing on the 0.25 per cent cut in full.
Michele Bullock has signalled further relief could be looming for Australian borrowers after the Reserve Bank cut the official interest rate for the third time this year.
Matt Mckenzie
After surprising everyone by showing signs of caution last month, the central bank has today said the time is right to deliver another lot of rate relief. And one bank isn’t wasting any time passing it on.
The Australian sharemarket has ticked down from a record high but maintained much of the lofty gains as investors prepare for interest rate cuts.
