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Melbourne couple permanently banned from credit activities
by James Mitchell • 14 Dec 2017
ASIC announced on Thursday (14 December) that it has permanently banned husband and wife Shrikrishna and Shilpa... READ MORE
Mortgage manager pulls line of credit products
by Staff reporter • 13 Dec 2017
As of Monday, 11 December, Bluebay will not accept new applications for Bluebay Adelaide Bank Home Loans Line of... READ MORE
New legislation provides tax cut for first home buyers
by Reporter • 8 Dec 2017
On Thursday (7 December), the federal parliament passed elements of the Turnbull government’s housing affordability... READ MORE
Investor lending bounces back in October
by Staff reporter • 8 Dec 2017
The latest figures from the ABS show that housing finance, excluding refinancing, was up modestly in October, though... READ MORE
Demand for fixed rate mortgages continues to fall
by Reporter • 7 Dec 2017
National home loan approval data from Mortgage Choice has shown that fixed rates made up 24.3 per cent of all home... READ MORE
Non-major pulls simple doc commercial loan
by Staff reporter • 6 Dec 2017
The bank sent out an update to brokers this week announcing that the Simple Doc commercial product — a lease-doc... READ MORE
Investors switched $1.2bn of loans to owner-occupier
by Reporter • 1 Dec 2017
The latest financial aggregates statistics release from the Reserve Bank of Australia reveals that the net value of... READ MORE
Competition heats up for investor, IO loans
by Staff reporter • 1 Dec 2017
Omniwealth Mortgage managing director James Grima said that lenders, for the first time in many months, are starting... READ MORE
Borrowers bargaining for better mortgage deals
by Reporter • 28 Nov 2017
The survey by finder.com.au revealed that 33 per cent of the 1,286 respondents managed to successfully bargain for a... READ MORE
Liberty buys stake in major third-party player
by James Mitchell • 24 Nov 2017
Liberty revealed on 24 November that it has expanded its ability to help business partners serve more customers by... READ MORE
Borrowers want to interact with people, says fintech CEO
by Reporter • 22 Nov 2017
The online mortgage brokerage, in line with its expansion, is currently looking to hire between 12 and 15 people to... READ MORE
Credit union could break into business banking
by Reporter • 17 Nov 2017
Treasurer Scott Morrison recently announced that the federal government will adopt all 11 recommendations of the... READ MORE
ING pulls back residential offering for non-individual borrowers
by Reporter • 10 Nov 2017
ING DIRECT has announced changes to its residential lending platform, introducing new restrictions and rate... READ MORE
Property investors 'don't need to worry' about financial security
by Lucy Dean • 8 Nov 2017
WealthMart property consultant, Steve Smith has said that while many Australians believe it’s too expensive to buy... READ MORE
Predictive machine learning could come to mortgages
by Reporter • 8 Nov 2017
Anil Arora, CEO of Envestnet Yodlee, a leading data aggregation and analytics platform for digital financial... READ MORE

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