TODAY we learned three things: the Banking Code of Practice isn’t worth the paper it is written on, the format for emailing Westpac...

Dear Mr Albanese, For a federal parliamentary petition to be approved, the rules state the request must be for something the House of...

COMMENT I’M sure there will be beers all round tonight for the Westpac communications team who managed to flip the bird at six federal...

JUNEE is one of the first towns to benefit from a parliamentary call for banks to halt all planned branch closures until a senate inquiry...

A MOTION to hold Australia’s first parliamentary inquiry into regional bank closures in 19 years has passed through the Federal Senate...

AS the year draws to an end it is time to reflect on the good, the bad and the ugly gifts given to regional Australians on the issue of...

CUSTOMERS of regional bank branches that are being closed have long had a sinking feeling they are being played. The letter arrives...

EXCLUSIVE THE number of banks closed in regional Australia in the six weeks since the Albanese Government quietly released the...

Dear Mr Dreyfus, I write to highlight issues with the administration of the Financial Services (Collection of Data) Act 2001 and the...

From the recent Regional Banking Taskforce final report to media stories dating back 20 years, mistakes in the APRA figures they quoted...

APRA has contradicted the Treasurer and what its own chairman told Parliament as it scrambles to avoid making the 'big four' banks obey...

THE release of the Australian banking regulator’s annual points of presence data this week will be an integrity test for both its...

REGIONAL Australians found themselves as the butt of a nasty joke at weekend, with both the new Federal Government and the Opposition...

REGIONAL Australians angry over continued bank closures have a chance to have their voice heard in federal parliament. The Regional’s...

An “open letter to the treasurer” published by The Regional last month drew attention to the plight of the South Australian town of...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL TREASURER, DR JIM CHALMERS Dear Dr Chalmers, We need to talk about Peterborough. It’s a town in South...

NEWS and COMMENT A NUMBER of significant mistakes identified in Federal Government records set up to monitor banking service levels...

The definition of what makes a bank a bank has never been more important as NAB starts to quietly downgrade branches to cashless...

BANK CLOSURES in regional Australia will be an election issue for the first time in nearly two decades thanks to the findings of a...

ANALYSIS/OPINION If there is one certain outcome from the recently announced government inquiry into regional banking services it is that...