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Bank Checks News

CBA owns up: the computer did it

Friday August 7, 2009
NO MATTER how hard they try, Australia's banks just can't keep out of trouble.

Good as gold, or so they were told

Saturday June 20, 2009
WITH the nation's biggest lender behind him and paying top-line fees for financial advice, Bruce Milburn figured he had the breaks in place to cope with a falling market. But he didn't.

Relying each day on tranquilisers to deal with a reversal of fortune

Saturday June 20, 2009
WITH the nation's biggest lender behind him, and paying top fees for financial advice, Bruce Milburn figured he had the brakes in place to cope with a falling market. He didn't.

Caged queue a Palestinian's lifeline to work

Tuesday June 16, 2009
THE keenest men start queuing about 2am at the Gilo checkpoint that divides the West Bank city of Bethlehem from Jerusalem.

From 'bus driver' to facing bankruptcy

Wednesday June 10, 2009
A HIGH-FLYING former hedge fund manager who pretended he was a trainee bus driver to avoid paying maintenance for his children in Britain has been served with bankruptcy proceedings by his former wife. Simon Sywak, who now lives in the Sydney suburb of Cherrybrook, is being pursued by Helen Sywak in the NSW Supreme Court.

Olmert Plan To Hand Over Most Of West Bank

Wednesday August 13, 2008
ISRAEL'S lame-duck Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, has reportedly offered the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, a deal that would give Palestinians control of 93 per cent of the West Bank.

Mon Dieu! Rogue Trader's $8bn Loss Rocks French Bank

Friday January 25, 2008
A ROGUE trader has stunned global financial markets by defrauding France's second-largest bank of $8.2 billion - the largest trading fraud in history.

Labor Gives Heads Of Reserve Bank Greater Independence

Friday December 7, 2007
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and Treasurer Wayne Swan have declared a "new era of independence and transparency" for the Reserve Bank, announcing a new system of appointing members to the central bank board.

Criminal-record Checks Can Raise Skeletons Better Left Buried

Tuesday May 23, 2006
In Victoria, background checks unfairly block the way for some.

Bookie Says Bank To Blame

Thursday March 10, 2005
Mark Read's International All Sports says Commonwealth Bank of Australia has only itself to blame for failing to prevent one of its branch managers from racking up an internet gambling debt of $17 million.

Bank Stocks Pressured In New Rising-rates World

Wednesday December 3, 2003
Bank share prices remained under pressure yesterday as analysts calculated the likely impact on their earnings of another interest rate hike when the Reserve Bank announces its decision this morning.

Queue-jumpers Controlled By Checks And Bank Balances

Thursday June 5, 2003
Mr Ruddock's concern for Mr Dante Tan, whose cheque donating $10,000 to the Liberal Party was sent directly to the minister's postal address (``Ruddock's $10,000 man faces extradition", Herald, June 4), is truly heartwarming. Similarly, the previous Australian citizenship checks on Mr Tan w

Bank Checks Robber

Wednesday October 30, 2002
IT was a case of third time unlucky for a Norah Head man who made repeated attempts to cash a stolen cheque at a Bateau Bay bank.

Five Years For $1m Bank Fraud

Saturday August 3, 2002
A former National Australia Bank employee who was a chronic gambler was sentenced to five years' jail yesterday for stealing more than $1 million from the bank.

Bank Checks That Could Keep Cricketers Clean

Thursday August 10, 2000
Australian cricketers could face audits of their bank accounts to determine if they are involved in match-fixing, but only if they agree to the checks. Mr Malcolm Speed, chief executive of the Australian Cricket Board, said yesterday that he would support audits approved by the players. Howeve

Bank Checks In

Saturday December 18, 1999
COLONIAL has thrown down the gauntlet to other financial institutions by opening a full service bank branch inside a Hunter supermarket. In a banking first, the branch opened yesterday in Coles Supermarket at Junction Fair Shopping Centre, in The Junction. It will trade Monday to Friday from 9

Another Branch Checks Out

Wednesday October 27, 1999
First the State Bank branch down the road went. Then ANZ and Westpac shut up shop. Now the Commonwealth is closing its branch in Newport, and locals fears the suburb may not recover. Last week the Commonwealth Bank announced that its Hall Street branch in Newport would stop trading on 26November