Industry gossip in Australia indicates the Rudd Labour Government has declared it wants a significant win in the financial services industry this year after a series of high profile collapses and other misdemeanours.

The consensus among the prognosticators is K-Rudd doesn’t care…

The Australian banking and regulatory system is the envy of the Western world, some say, yet pundits argue that the big four banks are anti-competitive due to their market share levels.

The ACCC had little choice during the global crisis to…

With Britain’s national debt interest ticking over at a rate of £6,017 per second the political agenda ahead of the upcoming general election is sharpening on cost cutting.

Traditionally political parties prefer to talk about spending rather than cuts – yet…

It’s a case of once burned, twice shy as investor confidence continues to slowly grow in the latest IFSA CoreData Investor Sentiment Index released this week.

Cautious optimism is logical considering the emotional and monetary scars from the recent global crisis…

Fewer punch-drunk first home buyers are staggering into the housing market party as the federal and state leg-ups – fuelling a new debt binge at the lower end of the market – approach last orders before closing-time later this month.

In Victoria…

Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics, well, if that rings true then the past year in financial services has been an eternity.

Looking back to the collapse of US-bank Lehman…