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Competition watchdog overruled as tribunal gives ANZ-Suncorp merger go-ahead

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. An August decision by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission declining to authorise the acquisition was overturned in a landmark judgment on Tuesday.

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New Zealand loan holders launch legal action to force Australian-owned banks to refund fees

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Amount sought from ANZ and the Commonwealth Bank-owned ASB could be in excess of $100m • Get our free news app ; get our morning email briefing A New Zealand law firm has filed a multimillion-dollar class action against two Australian-owned Kiwi banks on behalf of 150,000 home and personal loan customers.

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ANZ Bank To Refund $8B To Corporate Cardholders

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ANZ, one of Australia’s largest banks, is set to doll out nearly $8 billion in refunds to small business customers using the FI’s commercial card products. The agency noted that ANZ has since updated its procedures for disclosing fees and other information to its corporate clients.

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Commonwealth Bank and ANZ raise variable home loan interest rates by half a point to match RBA rise

TheGuardian

CBA’s rates for owner-occupier and investor mortgages will rise by half a percentage point on 12 August.

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Banks In Australia Push Back On Credit Checks

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In response to plans by regulators to require banks to conduct more detailed credit checks in lieu of depending upon indices, banks in Australia are pushing back. Banks in Australia depend heavily on an index that estimates an average Australian’s minimum living expenses based on levels of income.

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Are banks really going to revert to type and let struggling borrowers lose their homes? | Tony Robinson

TheGuardian

The growth that you might have anticipated might not come, so at some stage you’re going to have to say: ‘If I can’t afford this mortgage, am I better off to rent, put my capital aside and wait until I’m in a better position to buy back into the market?’ “The It had me recalling two stories embedded in the Robinson family psyche.

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Apple Pay in Australia Picks Up Support From Macquarie And ING

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In the latest bit of Apple Pay expansion news, Macquarie Group and ING Direct have announced that they will start using Apple Pay in Australia this month. Apple Pay has had something of a bumpy lift off down under — only one major Australian bank, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, has adopted the Apple Pay system.

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