The global financial crisis has highlighted the flaws in the financial system and has spread around the world, from market to market from sector to sector with the increasing swiftness of a locomotive running down a hill.

Indeed, the size of…

There was much backslapping among residential lenders in January as they hailed droves of first home buyers returning to the residential property market.

First home buyers also appear unafraid of loading up with cheap debt – combining the carrot of the…

Investors aboard the borrow to invest, get rich quick trainare finally jumping off, or more to the point falling off, with the number of open margin lending accounts declining in the September quarter, for the first time since the Reserve Bank…

Japan is a real case example of how bad things can get when sentiment turns from positive to negative and stays negative, and why the world should be looking at it closely in these times of financial woes.

Many in the West…

Mortgage brokers believe ongoing and future consumer demand for their services will prevent the big banks from having their way in driving them out of the market.

New research reveals two thirds of brokers (66.4%) believe banks are trying to squeeze…

Finance and regulation go hand in hand like Fish and Chips.

Unfortunately, the financial services industry is setting itself up for a greater portion of chips on its plate as signs indicate institutional behaviour is unlikely, and possibly never will be,…