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

Repayment Strain Grew 7.3% in Half a Year While New Borrowers Came In 12.9% Safer. Your Back Book an...

Oct 24, 2026

Hauser Says the Inflation Outlook Looks “Materially Worse” and the September CPI Lands 28 October. F...

Oct 23, 2026

Stronger Advocacy and Professional Standards Underpin Broking Industry’s Next Chapter: MFAA 2025–202...

Oct 22, 2026

The MFAA Found Little Evidence That Any Commission Model Produces Better Consumer Outcomes. In the N...

Oct 22, 2026

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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

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

Suncorp’s Own Examples Put the ANZ Minimum Repayment $1,060 a Month Higher on the Same Balance. Most of the Fixes Have to Happen Before the Move

Suncorp’s Own Examples Put the ANZ...

Oct 13, 2026

Advertised Rents Hit a Record $675 While Vacancy Rose to 1.5%. On AFG Align’s Guidelines, 80% of That Rent Reaches Servicing — and Proposed Rental Comes From the Valuation

Advertised Rents Hit a Record $675 While...

Oct 13, 2026

The MFAA’s Financial Abuse Guide Says Hand Over the Number, Never Make the Call. On a Joint File With Hidden Debt, It Says Don’t Improvise

The MFAA’s Financial Abuse Guide S...

Oct 12, 2026

CBA Lifted Fixed Rates up to 0.48% While Forecasting a Hold. At ANZ and CBA, Fixing Now Costs 19 to 44 Points Over Their Own Variable

CBA Lifted Fixed Rates up to 0.48% While...

Oct 12, 2026

NAB Forecasts an 11% Peak-to-Trough Fall and the Capitals Are 6.4% Down. Adelaide Has Two-Thirds of Its Decline Still Ahead — Melbourne a Third

NAB Forecasts an 11% Peak-to-Trough Fall...

Oct 12, 2026

Pakenham Hit 2.99% Arrears Against a 0.85% National Rate. In Two of the Worst Postcodes Values Fell 10.5% and 13% — and That Narrows the Refinance Exit

Pakenham Hit 2.99% Arrears Against a 0.8...

Oct 11, 2026

Rate Expectations Hit 179.7 While ‘Time to Buy a Dwelling’ Rose 3.4%. RG 273’s Point-in-Time Test Is Where Those Two Numbers Meet

Rate Expectations Hit 179.7 While ‘Time ...

Oct 11, 2026

UNO Now Monitors Its Clients’ Loans Continuously. Non-Bank Consumer Data Opens 9 November — and the Broker Pathway to It Drops the CDR Safeguards

UNO Now Monitors Its Clients’ Loans Cont...

Oct 10, 2026

Connective Added 206 Credit Reps This Year While Finsure Lost 107. Two Aggregators in the Table Say the Count Misses Brokers on Their Own Licence

Connective Added 206 Credit Reps This Ye...

Oct 10, 2026

The Fair Work Ombudsman Secured $478,880 Against a Finance Broking Operator. The Award It Applied Is the One Some Brokerages Are Told Doesn’t Cover Them

The Fair Work Ombudsman Secured $478,880...

Oct 9, 2026

CreditPolicy.ai Lands in Claude’s Connector Directory: Australia’s First Lender Policy Library You Can Plug Straight Into Your AI

CreditPolicy.ai Lands in Claude’s ...

Oct 9, 2026

ASIC Halted New Offers in Three Mortgage Funds Holding $251.8m. The Order Is About the PDS, Not the Loans Your Clients Are In

ASIC Halted New Offers in Three Mortgage...

Oct 9, 2026

One Bureau Told the Review Access Seeker Requests Rose About 500% in Five Years. The Privacy Act ‘Does Not Contemplate’ the Way Brokers Now Use It

One Bureau Told the Review Access Seeker...

Oct 8, 2026

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