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Lenders have continued to tweak pricing, policies, and product offerings this week. Here’s a round-up of the key changes brokers should be aware of.

A new CEO will take the helm at Macquarie Group later this year following the retirement of the bank’s long-serving leader.

Brokers have branded Australia’s clawback model “fundamentally unbalanced”, in a widespread condemnation of the existing framework despite ING’s latest reforms.

Australia’s capital city house and unit prices have recorded their first quarterly decline in more than three years, according to new figures from Domain.

Metro Finance has capped off the 2026 financial year by surpassing $6 billion in loan book value, as the non-bank lender continues to expand its presence in Australia’s asset finance market

A new build and an established property can now sit on opposite sides of two separate tax rules, not just one, and the gap is easy to miss until a client’s already signed, Daniel Farrugia, ...

Major banks have presented a united case for customer-consented ATO data sharing through the Consumer Data Right, saying the reform is needed to combat increasingly sophisticated AI-powered ...

Australian SMEs are becoming leaner businesses, but new research suggests workforce stability is increasingly determining which businesses are positioned for growth and which are facing ...

Digital non-bank lender Plenti has posted record quarterly loan originations in the first quarter of its 2027 financial year.

The non-major bank will eliminate clawbacks when a home loan is discharged 12 months after settlement if the property is sold.

The hunt is on for Australia’s top female financial professionals, as submissions and nominations open for the Women in Finance Awards 2026.

The CEO of a Sydney real estate agency has been sentenced after fraudulently obtaining more than $530,000 in clients’ deposits, using them to fund her own lifestyle and repay home loans.

Integrated property company LongView has launched the second iteration of its Home Equity Fund, as it seeks to capitalise on new investment pathways into the residential property market.

The federal government’s ban on limited recourse borrowing for residential property through SMSFs could threaten Australia’s home building targets, the Housing Industry Association has ...

Australia’s two key financial regulators have been told to place greater weight on economic growth and productivity under new statements of expectations released by the federal government