Posts tagged "loan"

The Big Four banks are ramping up their court activity against small businesses as interest rates continue to rise, with legal actions firmly at pre-pandemic levels in October.

Australian tax chief Chris Jordan's "unapologetic" focus on small businesses "treating ATO liabilities like a free loan" has sparked a strong response from the SME community.

Small business lender Judo Bank says its new forays into automation and artificial intelligence will provide customers with insights they could not gain on their own, as the scale-up challenges "industrialised" SME loans offered by the Big Four.

Tom Edwards and Betty Milner's Kickstarter campaign reached its target on Tuesday night, just four weeks after the couple first asked the community to support their dream of opening Iris the Bakery in Brunswick.

Victorian communities have rallied around small businesses affected by severe flooding, as shopfronts in Echuca brace for the chance of further inundation in the coming days.

The Reserve Bank of Australia hiked the cash rate target 0.5% on Tuesday, matching market expectations as the central bank battles inflation.

It's time to "start working on regulating" the BNPL sector "within the credit space", Financial Services Minister Stephen Jones said.

Getting a business loan can be a time consuming, daunting process, but taking the right steps to prepare can make the process so much smoother.

Despite allegations of fraud, strong-arming and abuses of power, Australia's big four banks say SME lending framework is broadly appropriate.

We need to "enshrine Justice Hayne’s six commandments in every bank’s code of conduct and make any breach to that code criminal."

We can’t just rely on regulated disclosure. Better-educated people are better equipped to ask the right questions and make more informed decisions.

Renowned tech entrepreneur Chris Ridd has joined the board of Melbourne-based lending platform Moula to help it transition from a startup i…