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UPDATE: The online portal millions of Australians will use this year to lodge their tax return has crashed, after the launch of a new system requiring income tax payers to log in to download a vital...

Were you a customer of ANZ Bank between 2008 and 2016? You might be eligible for a fee refund. Last year, the Financial Services Royal Commission heard that ANZ had to pay compensation to over two...

After a dramatic week in financial news, the Australian stock exchange is back in near-record territory, just shy of the record heights it hit in 2007. The big four banks felt the aftershocks of another cash...

ANZ has announced it will decrease all its variable rate home loans by 0.25 percentage points, following the central bank's decision to cut the official cash rate to the historic low of 1%. The Reserve Bank of...

Australia's central bank has cut the official cash rate for the second time this year, but some finance experts warn more could be done to boost the slowing economy. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board voted to...

Fintech company Afterpay endured a rollercoaster ride on the share market last week, while big guns Rio Tinto, Telstra, Commonwealth Bank and Westpac recovered ground.   The last trading week for the 2018/19 financial year saw...

A third bank is offering home loan interest rates just below 3%, with more lenders expected to follow as the nation's central bank embarks on a rate cutting cycle. Bank of Queensland has matched the lowest...

Telstra suffered a billion-dollar value drop, but a week of strong trading elsewhere saw the Australian share market coming close to smashing boom-time records. The All Ordinaries Index finished at 6,734 points (up 1.53%) and the...

The forecast for Libra, Facebook’s new currency, is that it's destined to either change the world of finance or destroy it. Social media has exploded with the news that social media giant Facebook plans to launch...

The Australian share market closed at an 11-year high last week, with the major miners, the telco giants and biotech heavyweight CSL leading market-wide gains. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 and the broader All Ordinaries both closed 1.7%...