SME Liquidity Fell 7.3% While Sales Fell 2.2%. The Second-Strongest Industry on Shift’s New In...

Oct 30, 2026

Trimmed Mean Hit 3.6% in September Against the RBA’s Own 3.3% Forecast for December. RG 273.12...

Oct 28, 2026

Treasury Would Lift the Covered Bond Cap to 12% and Submissions Close Friday. The CFR’s Own Paper Sa...

Oct 27, 2026

Bizcap Doubles Its Fast Business Loan Limit to $1 Million. It Still Doesn’t Ask for Property S...

Oct 27, 2026

Firstmac Now Gives Bridging Clients 12 Months to Sell and Assesses End Debt. The 1% Fee Is Charged o...

Oct 25, 2026

Bluestone Now Reads Comprehensive Credit Reporting on Every Debt and Wants One Year of Tax Returns. ...

Oct 25, 2026

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SME Liquidity Fell 7.3% While Sales Fell 2.2%. The Second-Strongest Industry on Shift’s New Index Lost 38.4% of Its Cash

SME Liquidity Fell 7.3% While Sales Fell...

Oct 30, 2026

ASIC Halted Offers in a $573.2m Mortgage Fund on 26 October. The Order Is About the PDS, Not the Loan Book — and the Last One Was Lifted in 11 Days

ASIC Halted Offers in a $573.2m Mortgage...

Oct 30, 2026

Medium Businesses’ Average Cyber Cost Jumped 45% to $141,300 While Small Firms Sat at $55,400. The Curve Bends Exactly Where Your Brokerage Is Growing

Medium Businesses’ Average Cyber C...

Oct 29, 2026

Fee-Charging Complaint Firms Tripled Their Home Loan Lodgements While Cutting Total Volume 38%. Your Closed Files Are Now Their Pipeline

Fee-Charging Complaint Firms Tripled The...

Oct 29, 2026

Trimmed Mean Hit 3.6% in September Against the RBA’s Own 3.3% Forecast for December. RG 273.121 Is the Paragraph for Files Still in Your Pipeline on 3 November

Trimmed Mean Hit 3.6% in September Again...

Oct 28, 2026

Refinancing Hit a Record 57% of LMG’s Lodgements While New Lending Value Sat 24% Below January. RG 273.119 Says the Stay-Put File Is Still a Recommendation

Refinancing Hit a Record 57% of LMG’s Lo...

Oct 28, 2026

Treasury Would Lift the Covered Bond Cap to 12% and Submissions Close Friday. The CFR’s Own Paper Says Banks Keep Headroom Under the 8%

Treasury Would Lift the Covered Bond Cap...

Oct 27, 2026

Bizcap Doubles Its Fast Business Loan Limit to $1 Million. It Still Doesn’t Ask for Property Security

Bizcap Doubles Its Fast Business Loan Li...

Oct 27, 2026

CBA’s Calculators Have Been Off Quickli Since July and Are “Unlikely to Return” This Year. RG 273.162 Asks What Your File Says You Compared

CBA’s Calculators Have Been Off Quickli ...

Oct 27, 2026

A Broker Moved a Client’s Home Loan Arrears Onto a Six-Month Business Loan. AFCA Found the Business Purpose Declaration Ineffective

A Broker Moved a Client’s Home Loan Arre...

Oct 26, 2026

ASIC Cancelled Two Credit Licences on 12 October Over Unpaid AFCA Determinations. One Trigger Was a $4,106 CSLR Payment — and s 54(1B) Leaves ASIC No Discretion

ASIC Cancelled Two Credit Licences on 12...

Oct 26, 2026

Finsure Declined 13 Broker Applicants in Sentinel’s First Six Weeks. ASIC Told Bank Boards It Will Review Lender Oversight of Brokers From Q3

Finsure Declined 13 Broker Applicants in...

Oct 25, 2026

NAB’s Serviceability Calculator V66 Became Mandatory on 23 October With New HEM Values. A Number You Quoted Last Week May Not Survive Lodgement

NAB’s Serviceability Calculator V6...

Oct 25, 2026

Firstmac Now Gives Bridging Clients 12 Months to Sell and Assesses End Debt. The 1% Fee Is Charged on the Peak

Firstmac Now Gives Bridging Clients 12 M...

Oct 25, 2026

Bluestone Now Reads Comprehensive Credit Reporting on Every Debt and Wants One Year of Tax Returns. The Repayment History Is the New Gate on a Near-Prime File

Bluestone Now Reads Comprehensive Credit...

Oct 25, 2026

Wisr’s Secured Vehicle Originations Rose 138% While the Majors’ Share of That Market Fell to 56%. RG 273.133 Says Your Best Interests Duty Follows You Into Those Files

Wisr’s Secured Vehicle Originations Rose...

Oct 25, 2026

Repayment Strain Grew 7.3% in Half a Year While New Borrowers Came In 12.9% Safer. Your Back Book and Your Pipeline Are Now Moving in Opposite Directions

Repayment Strain Grew 7.3% in Half a Yea...

Oct 24, 2026

Macquarie’s Guidelines Count 95% of Gross Rent and Apply a 15% Expense Floor Underneath. What Reaches Servicing Is Closer to 80%

Macquarie’s Guidelines Count 95% of Gros...

Oct 24, 2026

Firstmac’s Alt-Doc Loans Start at 6.99% at 70% LVR on Six Months of BAS. The Harder File Note Is Now Which Alt-Doc Lender, Not Whether

Firstmac’s Alt-Doc Loans Start at 6.99% ...

Oct 23, 2026

Hauser Says the Inflation Outlook Looks “Materially Worse” and the September CPI Lands 28 October. Five Days Later the Board Decides Whether Your Assessment Rates Move Again

Hauser Says the Inflation Outlook Looks ...

Oct 23, 2026

Tim Wilson Floated a Singapore-Style Growth Mandate for ASIC and APRA. The Speech Never Mentions BID — and the UK’s 2023 Version Hit a “Deeply Entrenched” Culture

Tim Wilson Floated a Singapore-Style Gro...

Oct 22, 2026

Stronger Advocacy and Professional Standards Underpin Broking Industry’s Next Chapter: MFAA 2025–2026 Annual Report

Stronger Advocacy and Professional Stand...

Oct 22, 2026

The MFAA Found Little Evidence That Any Commission Model Produces Better Consumer Outcomes. In the Netherlands, Where Commissions Were Banned in 2013, Brokers Still Write About 80%

The MFAA Found Little Evidence That Any ...

Oct 22, 2026

A 67.8% Default Rate Was Struck Down as a Penalty. The Unconscionability Claim Failed — and That Gap Is the Part Brokers Should Read

A 67.8% Default Rate Was Struck Down as ...

Oct 21, 2026

NAB Is Cutting 2,500 Roles, Mostly in Corporate Functions. The Release Names Proprietary Home Lending as a Priority and Never Mentions Brokers

NAB Is Cutting 2,500 Roles, Mostly in Co...

Oct 21, 2026

The Average First Home Buyer Loan Reached $610,063, Up Almost $50,000 Since the Scheme Expanded. Primara Puts Break-Even on the Upfront Benefit at 13.7 Years

The Average First Home Buyer Loan Reache...

Oct 20, 2026

ASIC Found Four Cases Where a Bank Never Told the Broker the Offset Needed Re-Linking. Two of Those Clients Paid More Than $17,000 in Extra Interest

ASIC Found Four Cases Where a Bank Never...

Oct 20, 2026

A Subscribing Bank Can’t Accept Your Client’s Family Guarantee Until the Third Day, and Can’t Send the Documents Through the Borrower. Submissions on Whether to Change That Close 11 December

A Subscribing Bank Can’t Accept Yo...

Oct 19, 2026

ASIC Had No Concerns With the Recorded Reasons on 74.1% of Files Where the Extra Cost Was Under $1,000. Above $20,000 It Was 34.1%

ASIC Had No Concerns With the Recorded R...

Oct 19, 2026

The Median Capital-City Home Takes 39 Days to Sell, Up From 23, and Sells 4.4% Under Asking. One Bridging Term on Your Panel Is Six Months

The Median Capital-City Home Takes 39 Da...

Oct 18, 2026

NAB’s Employment Index Fell to a Five-Year Low and Confidence Sits in the Bottom 5% of the Survey’s History. Your Self-Employed Client’s Last Lodged Return Describes a Different Year

NAB’s Employment Index Fell to a Five-Ye...

Oct 18, 2026

The FBAA Told Lenders to Keep Cashbacks Open to Every Channel. ASIC’s REP 840 Is Why a Direct-Only Offer Becomes Your Evidence Problem

The FBAA Told Lenders to Keep Cashbacks ...

Oct 17, 2026

Brokers Wrote 72% of BOQ’s FY26 Lending and Hold 58% of Its Book. The CFO Says That Reliance Will Moderate — and the Digital Home Loan Already Scores +76 NPS Through Brokers

Brokers Wrote 72% of BOQ’s FY26 Lending ...

Oct 17, 2026

Same-Lender Refinancing Fell 28% — More Than Three Times the 8.8% Fall in Switching. The Steepest Drop in the Release Was the Easier Option

Same-Lender Refinancing Fell 28% — More ...

Oct 16, 2026

Bank Branches Fell 3.0% and the Regional Decline Was the Smallest on Record. The Moratorium Holding It There Runs Out Mid-2027 for NAB and ANZ

Bank Branches Fell 3.0% and the Regional...

Oct 16, 2026

MFAA CEO Anja Pannek Joins the COSBOA Board. The Release Names Four Pressures Brokers Share With Every Small Business

MFAA CEO Anja Pannek Joins the COSBOA Bo...

Oct 15, 2026

Employment Fell 39,000 and the RBA Said the Trade-Off With Full Employment “Had Deteriorated”. Bank of Sydney Wants Probation Completed; Thinktank Takes It Case by Case

Employment Fell 39,000 and the RBA Said ...

Oct 15, 2026

Upgraders Hit a Record 46% of AFG’s Lodgements While the Average Loan Reached $730,145. The Majors’ Jump to 70% Isn’t Like-for-Like — Macquarie Moved Into That Bucket

Upgraders Hit a Record 46% of AFG’...

Oct 15, 2026

Treasury’s Draft Puts $7.79m of the CSLR Special Levy on Credit Intermediaries. ASIC Prices That Sub-Sector Off Your 2024–25 Credit Rep Count

Treasury’s Draft Puts $7.79m of the CSLR...

Oct 14, 2026

ASIC Found 6.9% of Best-Interests Complaints Resolved Same Day Against 48.7% of All Others. The Five-Day Fix You Never Logged Still Had to Be Recorded

ASIC Found 6.9% of Best-Interests Compla...

Oct 14, 2026

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Fee-Charging Complaint Firms Tripled Their Home Loan Lodgements While Cutting Total Volume 38%. Your Closed Files Are Now Their Pipeline

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