29 March 2010
TREASURER Wayne Swan insists the federal government's $16 billion boost to mortgage securitisation markets is starting to push down funding costs for small banks as more private investors jump on board... read full story
22 March 2010
INVESTOR appetite for low quality mortgage loans is returning. Macquarie's securitisation arm has privately arranged a bond containing $500 million worth of "low doc" loans, the first such issue since the financial crisis... read full story
12 January 2010
ALMOST two years since the $650 million collapse of margin lender Opes Prime, criminal charges have been laid against the three men who ran the failed stockbroker... read full story
16 December 2009
American banks are keen to pay back their bail-out money, write Eric Dash and Andrew Martin... read full story
2 December 2009
It's all quite legal, but private equity experts are using 'shareholder loans' to run rings around the taxman... read full story
7 November 2009
THE Queensland property fund Indigo Pacific has written down the value of loans made to several private companies operated by two of its former directors by $28 million to just $5.9 million, adding to the torment facing investors in the failed property financier City Pacific's satellites... read full story
23 September 2008
Private loans can be useful for those who wish to seek education that is not supported by government assistance schemes... read full story
2 September 2008
ST GEORGE BANK has returned to one of its more traditional sources of funding - the once-cheap home loans investment market - to raise just over $1 billion towards its estimated $12 billion financing needs for the current year... read full story
13 May 2008
TREASURER Wayne Swan brings down Labor's first budget tonight against the background of the biggest drop in four years in the number of loans for new housing... read full story
21 April 2008
BANKS would join forces with the Federal Government to give low-interest loans to help poor people set up small businesses under an innovative plan taken to the summit by the chief executive of National Australia Bank, Ahmed Fahour... read full story
