Not to go on about bad debts this week – but there are some other numbers we have been digging up as we start to take the temperature of the economy this quarter.

Right now the numbers are starting to get…

Investor education has been identified as a key issue facing the financial services industry yet when it comes to home loans consumers, it seems, are no fools with one in two (49.8%) aware of the exact rate of interest they…

Bank of Queensland may have some of the most satisfied customers in the country but the bank may have gone too far and over promised in a new television campaign promoting its home loans.

The bank appears to play on some…

The thought of an unprecedented wave of sub-prime mortgages flooding the Australian market is a scary one, perhaps even to the most liberal of lenders.

Purchasing a home, whether it be for owner-occupier purposes or as an investment, and for most,…

How long is a piece of string? How many monkeys does it take to change a light bulb? Who knows, but what we do know is how long it takes to be served in a Chinese bank – one hour…

The world of banking and saving keeps getting smaller and faster – in Nairobi recently Kenya’s biggest mobile phone operator launched a service called M-Pesa that allows subscribers to send cash via SMS using their mobile phones.

For most consumers, Africa…