Dale Webster
Does the Treasurer have a god complex or is he just trying to avoid the really hard reforms?
THE Senate inquiry into regional bank closures, which delivered its final report in May this year, was an important investigation by...
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Dale Webster
Sep 74 min read
ANZ's bid to outsmart Suncorp contract reaches new low
ABOVE: From ANZ's response to a customer complaint over the Katoomba closure dated September 6, 2024. JUST when it seemed ANZ’s attempts...
Dale Webster
Sep 25 min read
ANZ blows up 'legally binding' Suncorp deal over Katoomba branch
ABOVE: ANZ chief executive Shayne Elliott after telling Economics Committee chairman Daniel Mulino for the second time that ANZ had...
Dale Webster
Jun 3023 min read
A win for the people as Australia's big banks finally go too far
IT is impossible to pinpoint an exact time when Australia’s big four banks turned on their regional customer base but May 24, 2024 will...
Dale Webster
Jun 163 min read
When money changes hands, independence is out the window
THE Commonwealth Bank has marked the Sunshine Coast again being named the fastest growing regional migration destination in Australia by...
Dale Webster
May 253 min read
Banks blow their chance to self-regulate by betraying trust
IT may have taken 20 years but a Federal Government inquiry has finally made good on a warning that if the 'big four' banks did not...
Dale Webster
May 244 min read
Report signals party is over for Australia's big four banks
OFFICIAL recognition of banking as an essential service, the end of self-regulation of the banking industry and a pathway forward for the...
Dale Webster
May 144 min read
Trust is something that is hard to win but easy to lose
COMMENT IF there was ever a time to take a close look at the relationship Australia’s major banks have with the word “trust” it is now....
Dale Webster
Feb 106 min read
Third of NAB’s regional banks wiped in CEO’s reign of terror
After slashing NAB's regional branches by a third Ross McEwan is bailing before a senate inquiry into the closures reports. Miniscule...
Dale Webster
Dec 23, 20232 min read
ANZ closes early for Christmas parties on busiest day of year
DURING the COVID crisis, Australia’s major banks lobbied hard to be counted as an essential service so they could remain open during...
Dale Webster
Oct 27, 20234 min read
APRA bogged in a data mess of its own making
HEADLINES around Australia last week screamed out about bank closures. They were triggered by the release of the Australian Prudential...
Dale Webster
Sep 24, 20238 min read
Banks' disconnect from regional Australia never more obvious
ABOVE: Anna Bligh talks banking taskforce in Canberra on Wednesday. Vision: APH THE chief executive of the Australian Banking Association...
Dale Webster
Aug 21, 20236 min read
The dirty business of bank closures laid bare in WA
AT the end of two days listening to senate hearings investigating the impact of regional bank closures in Western Australia all I wanted...
Dale Webster
Jul 7, 20232 min read
Make up your mind CBA, you can't have it both ways
THE Commonwealth Bank is at it again. While to be congratulated on its decision to put a three-year moratorium on regional branch...
Dale Webster
Jul 3, 20234 min read
NAB caught out in data lie over branch closures
THE National Australia Bank (NAB) has been pulling a swifty on customers that have lost branches since September last year, using...
Dale Webster
May 17, 202312 min read
Westpac a no-show after public humiliation at first senate hearing into bank closures
WESTPAC should have been fronting up at the second hearing of the Senate inquiry into regional bank closures in Cloncurry this morning...
Dale Webster
May 5, 20233 min read
Commonwealth breaks pledge to pause regional bank closures
THE Commonwealth Bank is closing a branch in an area it has itself labelled one of Australia’s most popular destinations for regional...
Dale Webster
Mar 17, 202310 min read
Senate inquiries are serious business and no place for spin
CONTEMPT of the Senate is a pretty easy thing to get your head around. Witnesses at hearings who give false or misleading evidence run...
Dale Webster
Feb 24, 20234 min read
Bank body silent on disabled access breach of its code
TODAY we learned three things: the Banking Code of Practice isn’t worth the paper it is written on, the format for emailing Westpac...
Dale Webster
Feb 18, 20232 min read
Open letter to Albo: Apparently you have the power to pause bank closures
Dear Mr Albanese, For a federal parliamentary petition to be approved, the rules state the request must be for something the House of...
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