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The real-time effects of the policy to remove tax incentives including negative gearing are glaringly clear.

Two big banks have slashed their house price forecasts. The numbers are hair-raising

The signs are difficult to ignore: an avalanche of sellers, increasing levels of stale stock sitting on property portal shelves, and auction clearance rates wallowing around 50 per cent.

  • Elizabeth Knight

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The banks face weaker growth in their biggest market: mortgages.

The banks’ rivers of gold are facing another blow

On top of a weakening economy and an energy crisis, banking giants now face a softer market in their most important type of lending: mortgages.

  • Clancy Yeates
Private credit structures can be very opaque. But high returns have been attracting investors all year.

Why anxious Australians are putting cash back in their wallets

After more than two decades of ditching cash, Australians have started putting $20 and $50 notes back in their wallets.

  • Shane Wright
Two NAB workers have died by suicide in recent weeks.

Workplace safety regulator investigating two suicides among NAB staff

The federal workplace health and safety authority is investigating the circumstances surrounding two NAB employees who died by suicide just weeks apart.

  • Millie Muroi and Elias Visontay
Banks have raised “bonus” rates but not the base rates on these types of accounts.

How Australia’s big banks ran into an even bigger fish

Banks have long accused tech companies of free-riding, but lately those warnings have grown louder. Are banks just trying to protect their patch, or do they have a point?

  • Clancy Yeates and David Swan
Only two of the big four banks have fully passed on the latest rate hike to their introductory interest rates.

How banks are only ‘partially’ raising rates for savers

Savers are having to jump through hoops to get the full benefit of recent interest rate rises from the Reserve Bank.

  • Millie Muroi
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AI tools could soon benefit customers of financial services.

Many of us pay our bank a ‘lazy tax.’ AI could change this

AI isn’t only a cost-cutting tool for companies to ruthlessly exploit. It could also change the way millions of people behave with their money.

  • Clancy Yeates
Banks have an obligation to report late payments as a black mark on your credit score.

How $44 and an ‘ambiguous’ email caused a credit score nightmare

It’s a timely reminder that if something is on your credit report that you think should not be there, say something and keep at it until the matter is resolved.

  • Victoria Devine
The ABC removed coverage of a pensioner who had taken on a big bank because of his historical conviction.

‘Dark past’: Why the ABC pulled this Australian Story at the last minute

Court records show Ian Williams, who the ABC had profiled for taking on a big bank, was convicted of indecent assault and served jail time in the 1990s.

  • Calum Jaspan
Former ANZ chief Shayne Elliott.

Former ANZ chief Shayne Elliott drops legal action against bank

Elliott was denied $13.5 million in bonuses following a string of regulatory woes at the big four giant.

  • Clancy Yeates