Four Rate Rises Have Turned an $800,000 Borrowing Limit Into About $720,000. Eventus Financial’...

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CreditPolicy.ai launches AI connector that takes brokers from policy question to deal update

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Four Rate Rises Have Turned an $800,000 Borrowing Limit Into About $720,000. Eventus Financial’s Alex Veljancevski on the Pre-Approval Trap

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Sep 29, 2026

State of Broking 2026, Part 1 of 4: 17% of Brokers Settled No Home Loans Last Year. 18% Settled $25m or More

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Sep 29, 2026

Five Industry Bodies Commissioned the Polling Behind ‘One in Four Projects Cancelled’. The Arithmetic and the Caveats Both Matter

Five Industry Bodies Commissioned the Po...

Sep 25, 2026

RAMS Will Pay $29.6m Over Terminated Franchises. $7.8m of That Is Trail It Withheld at 25%

RAMS Will Pay $29.6m Over Terminated Fra...

Sep 25, 2026

CreditPolicy.ai launches AI connector that takes brokers from policy question to deal update

CreditPolicy.ai launches AI connector th...

Sep 24, 2026

Great Southern Bank’s First Home Buyer Share Is More Than Triple Its Overall Mortgage Share. That Is a Placement Signal, Not a League Table

Great Southern Bank’s First Home B...

Sep 23, 2026

ASIC Told a Room of Commercial Brokers It Is ‘Beyond Warnings’ on Private Credit. Its 28-Fund Review Hands You Four Questions

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Sep 23, 2026

81% Would Let an AI Agent Compile Their Loan Options. 59% Would Let It Apply. The Gap Is Where Brokers Still Sit

81% Would Let an AI Agent Compile Their ...

Sep 23, 2026

The Broker Channel Writes 81.6% of New Home Loans. Bluestone’s Survey Found 10% of Self-Employed Borrowers Used One

The Broker Channel Writes 81.6% of New H...

Sep 23, 2026

266 Fixed Rates Rose in a Week While Two Lenders Cut Variables. CBA’s Two-Year Now Sits Above the Average Variable Rate

266 Fixed Rates Rose in a Week While Two...

Sep 23, 2026

ASIC Alleges Up to 70 Comparison Sites Sold Leads to the Highest Bidding Broker. Your Own Panel Claim Sits Under the Same Section

ASIC Alleges Up to 70 Comparison Sites S...

Sep 22, 2026

The Senate Put Offset Accounts Under Inquiry Until June 2027. The Terms of Reference Never Mention the Channel Writing 81.6% of Loans

The Senate Put Offset Accounts Under Inq...

Sep 22, 2026

Arrears Fell to 1.01% and LVRs Above 80% Eased to 29.7%. The Same APRA Release Shows a Record-Thin Deposit Tail

Arrears Fell to 1.01% and LVRs Above 80%...

Sep 21, 2026

Banks Won’t Approve a No-Benefit Co-Borrower Unless They’re Satisfied There’s No Financial Abuse. Your Interview Is Where That Gets Decided

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Sep 21, 2026

Investor Pre-Approvals Fell 55% While Year-to-Date Lodgements Held at +6.5%. The Gap Is Your Forward Book, Not a Contradiction

Investor Pre-Approvals Fell 55% While Ye...

Sep 18, 2026

Just 23% Say Their New Build Finished on Time. On a Construction Loan, the Delay Lands on Your File Too

Just 23% Say Their New Build Finished on...

Sep 17, 2026

Police Charged Three at an Accounting Firm Over False Loan Documents. The Accountant’s Letter on Your Self-Employed File Needs a Second Source

Police Charged Three at an Accounting Fi...

Sep 17, 2026

Investors Now Ask “Personal, Company or Trust?” First. Buyer’s Agent Heath Bassett Says Structure Won’t Rescue a Bad Purchase

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Sep 16, 2026

AI Now Pulls Escalated Pricing From Up to Nine Lenders in Minutes. RG 273 Still Asks You to Show Why You Picked One

AI Now Pulls Escalated Pricing From Up t...

Sep 16, 2026

Outsource Financial Put Document Forensics on the Broker’s Desk. What Happens After a Flag Is Governed by Section 118(4)

Outsource Financial Put Document Forensi...

Sep 16, 2026

62.3% of Investors Are Now Cash-Flow Negative. The Negative Gearing They Give Up by Selling Cannot Be Bought Back

62.3% of Investors Are Now Cash-Flow Neg...

Sep 15, 2026

Growing Borrower Concern as Cash Rate Threatens a 15-Year High

Growing Borrower Concern as Cash Rate Th...

Sep 15, 2026

Macquarie Reached a Decision in 1.7 Days in July. One Lender in the Same Survey Took 11.6

Macquarie Reached a Decision in 1.7 Days...

Sep 14, 2026

ASIC Flagged Missed Reference Checks on the Advice Side. The Same Instrument Binds Your Credit Licence — and Gives Your Competitor 10 Business Days

ASIC Flagged Missed Reference Checks on ...

Sep 14, 2026

The MFAA Has Asked Canberra to End Duplicate ID Checks. Until It Does, the Check You’re Doing Is the Lender’s Obligation, Not Yours

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Sep 13, 2026

R U OK? Day: How to Ask a Broker Who’s Struggling — and What to Do With the Answer

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Sep 10, 2026

Households Plan $85bn in Energy Upgrades. The Retrofit Money Runs Through a $1bn Fund, Not Your Green Home Loan

Households Plan $85bn in Energy Upgrades...

Sep 10, 2026

A Median-Income Household Can Afford 12% of Homes. Mortgage Choice Just Put a 98% LVR Loan in Its Network

A Median-Income Household Can Afford 12%...

Sep 9, 2026

AMP Assesses Its 40-Year Investor Loan Over 30 Years. None of the Post-Budget Capacity Levers Touch the DTI Cap

AMP Assesses Its 40-Year Investor Loan O...

Sep 9, 2026

Suncorp Bank Has Told Brokers Its 1.2 Million Customers Move to ANZ by June 2027. The Announcement Left Out Accreditation, Lodgement and Trail

Suncorp Bank Has Told Brokers Its 1.2 Mi...

Sep 8, 2026

Liberty’s SME Book Passed $8.8bn. The 15 Basis Points It Paid to Get There Is What Reaches Your Commercial Client

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Sep 8, 2026

Sydney’s Cheapest Suburbs Are Falling the Least. Shore’s Theo Chambers Says Borrowing Capacity Now Beats Sub-One-Month Stock

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Sep 7, 2026

$55m Repaid on Broken Offset Accounts. In One ASIC Case Study the Lender Never Told the Broker

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APRA and ASIC Asked 380 Entities to Prove Their AI Resilience. Brokers Aren’t on That List — But Every Platform You Log Into Is

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74% of Scheme First Home Buyers Come Through Brokers. At the Senate’s Final Hearing the Channel Asked for a Discharge Framework, Not More Borrowing Capacity

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Sep 6, 2026

2.5 Million Australians Have Little or No Credit History. The Rent-History Score Built for Them Just Opened a Broker Pilot — and It Runs on CDR Consent

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Sep 6, 2026

Brokers Hit a Record 81.6% Share. The Same Year, $371bn Changed Lender — and 37% of It Left Through a Sale, Not a Refinance

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A 30% Trustee Tax Starts 1 July 2028. The Three-Year Restructure Window Opens First — and It Runs Through Your Loan Book

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ING Reported a 160% Liquidity Ratio. APRA Says the Real One Dipped Below 100%. It Writes More Than 95% of Its Book Through You

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ADI Housing Books Grew $5.6bn in July, the Weakest Month Since February 2024. Business Credit Added $7bn

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The Private Credit Association of Australia will score managers against ASIC’s 10 principles from December. Its weakest scorers stay unnamed for 12 months.

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MFAA data shows 17% of brokers settled no home loans in 2025 while 18% wrote $25m or more. Part 1 of our State of Broking 2026 series on the activity gap.

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