Ooops! I praised one of Australia’s banks while on a speaker’s panel last week at the Global Business Banking Summit in Sydney. Given all the heat coming on the banks from the Royal Commission maybe I should have been more cautious?
I was on the panel with Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell and economist Stephen Koukoulas discussing banks and small business lending. The room was full of bankers. More...
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We praise a bank. That’s very incorrect of us these days!!
Banks and unfair protections
The Banks are opposing unfair contract protections for small business people. Here’s their submission. But NAB were recently found to have engaged in "…misleading and deceptive conduct … through its bank officer…" and had a mortgage guarantee set aside.
Extracts from the case National Australia Bank Limited v Smith [2014] NSWSC 1605 (13 November 2014) appear below— More...
Double Standards in Disclosure Requirements
While the Abbott government is proposing disclosure requirements on unions, it is planning to remove similar requirements on financial advisers. Alan Kohler explains this well in Business Spectator. Minister Sinodonis is behind this. We’ve been critical of him before when he tried to attack Self Managed Super Funds. The Minister needs to ensure consistency with the government’s reforming efforts on disclosure. More...
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