As the CBA announces billions in after-tax profits, workers are denied wage rises to keep up with inflation and many will be squeezed by interest rate hikes. Peter Boyle argues that the bank should be taken back into public ownership and run as a not-for-profit service.
Big Four Banks
The Adani mine is seven years behind schedule and the Big Four banks and many insurance companies have ruled out investing in the project.聽Jim McIlroy and Richard Boult report on the #StopAdani Roadshow.聽
Amid the chaos of #libspill, the Coalition government's signature plan to cut the big business tax rate from 30 to 25% for companies with turnover above $50 million was blocked in the Senate on August 22. The vote was 36 to 30.
The Finance Sector Union has slammed a plan to "embed" financial regulatory agency officers inside the Big Four banks and the financial management giant AMP. The FSU says that officers from the Australian Securities聽and Investments Commission (ASIC), which has been criticised for being 鈥渢oo close to the banks鈥, would be unable to penetrate the unethical internal culture of the banks.
The humiliating about-face forced on Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull when he announced a royal commission into the banking and financial sectors on November 30 could be the beginning of the end for the Coalition government.
Finance industry workers are facing increasing pressure as banks seek to maximise their already hefty profits. Our jobs are becoming increasingly precarious, and all the while our wages and conditions are being threatened with cuts.
These days, if you walk into a bank, you鈥檒l find very few staff and a lot of ATMs, which not only give cash but do almost everything a teller can do. You will also find a concierge, whose job is to shift customers to self-service via online banking. Tellers have performance targets for shifting customers online.
It seems that every other month we have another parliamentary inquiry into the banks. With so many regular appearances you鈥檇 think it would start to get boring.
Ahead of to the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference, Australia鈥檚 to take action on climate change.
The Big Four banks have abolished fees on 鈥渇oreign鈥 automatic teller machines (ATM) withdrawals as part of a public relations ploy to head off a royal commission into their financial scandals.
The Commonwealth Bank announced on September 24 it was scrapping ATM fees on withdrawals by customers of other banks. This was immediately followed by ANZ, the National Australia Bank and Westpac.
Can you imagine being a bank CEO today? Wouldn鈥檛 you be wishing you were leading the bank 10 years ago before the global financial crisis when you could do whatever you wanted without too much fuss?
Fast forward to 2017. Bank CEOs are under intense scrutiny, but still pushing the banks鈥 profit-driven agenda in the face of scandal after scandal and community anger.
Australia's four big banks plus AMP are ripping off the country's workers with huge fees charged on their superannuation investments, a recent study has revealed.
carried out by Rainmaker for Industry Super Australia, a mainly union-backed body, shows that the retail super funds, largely operated by the big banks, absorb about half of all fees charged in the superannuation system, despite holding only 29% of retirement savings.
As expected, the major banks are preparing to launch a media war against the Turnbull government鈥檚 proposed $6.2 billion bank levy, as outlined in Treasurer Scott Morrison鈥檚 May 9 federal budget speech.
Australian Bankers鈥 Association head Anna Bligh was furious. She said a campaign was being considered, claiming the government was playing 鈥渇ast and loose鈥 with the nation鈥檚 financial system.
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