A new integration has brought whole-of-debt analysis into the mortgage broking workflow, giving brokers a broader view of clients’ financial positions. Fintech LoanOptions.ai’s loan application ...

The 5 per cent Deposit Scheme has ticked past 100,000 buyers since its expansion one year ago, but the issues facing first home buyers are far from solved. Overhauled on 1 October 2025, the scheme was ...

Rising diesel prices, persistent late payments and the introduction of Payday Super are creating working capital pressures across the transport and logistics sector. Small businesses in the transport ...

Teachers Mutual Bank Limited has announced the rollout of the Australian government’s Help to Buy Scheme through its broker channel, with the first cohort of trained brokers able to submit ...

Brokers have called for greater consistency in lender oversight across the industry as ASIC prepares to review how banks manage broker channels, referrer arrangements and banker incentives. Following ...

RAMS Financial Group has lost a case against a former franchisee, with the Federal Court finding it breached its obligation to act in good faith over the termination of its franchise agreement.

With further rate rises on the horizon and borrower confidence under pressure, brokers are facing a changing market. For some, that means softer demand and tougher conditions, but for those prepared ...

CRM platform Salestrekker has launched a new AI-powered tool designed to audit loan files in real time at the point of lodgement. Audit AI is the latest addition to the Salestrekker 2.0 AI suite, ...

Business lending has emerged as the standout performer in the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s full-year results, growing almost twice as fast as home lending over the past year. The Commonwealth Bank ...

If plans proceed, the mutuals’ members will vote on the proposal in the first half of 2027. P&N Group – which operates P&N Bank in Western Australia and BCU Bank in northern NSW and South-East ...

Business conditions have fallen into negative territory for the first time since the pandemic, according to National Australia Bank’s long-running survey. National Australia Bank’s (NAB) Business ...

The YBR-owned lender has concluded its inaugural public residential mortgage-backed securities transaction, raising $500 million to help it provide additional funding. Resi Wholesale Funding (Resi) – ...