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Surcharge ban won’t end scrutiny on payment costs, RBA warns (opens the original)
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A ban on card surcharges is a win for consumers, says the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Labor MP who championed the move, while putting banks and payment services providers on notice that their focus will now turn to the cost of payments for small businesses. Australian consumers have been paying $1.6 billion in surcharges each year and RBA governor Michele Bullock said on Tuesday it had moved to eliminate the cost because consumers “disliked it immensely”. From Thursday, “just like electric
AI looming as big threat to $300b sitting in Australian bank accounts (opens the original)
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The Reserve Bank of Australia’s move to raise the cash rate to 4.6 per cent will push major banks to pay depositors more by lifting bonus or base rates on savings accounts, but not on daily transaction accounts that pay no interest. The big four banks hold over $300 billion of deposits in these non-interest-bearing transaction accounts. Commonwealth Bank accounts for $120 billion of that total. However, savings in these accounts could become the next target of artificial intelligence agents as c
ANZ, Westpac fighting hardest in battle over shrinking home loan pie (opens the original)
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The big banks face growing challenges in the $2.5 trillion mortgage market, with an expected cash rate rise this week to continue the squeeze on demand for new home loans, reigniting a pricing war as lenders fight it out to share a diminishing pie. Mortgage brokers report ANZ has been offering the most competitive interest rates while Westpac has improved loan approval times, with these two lenders gaining favour with brokers as mortgage demand overall contracts for five straight months. Gift 5
Forget rogue robots; AI’s biggest threat is the ‘lay-off trap’ (opens the original)
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As Prime Minister Anthony Albanese strutted the global stage this week in New York, building a political coalition to regulate artificial intelligence and protect societies from existential risks, Treasurer Jim Chalmers, back in Canberra, was selling the government’s Intergenerational Report – which calls out AI risks of a different kind. Casting its policy eye out a few decades, federal Treasury described the looming impact of AI on the economy, productivity and jobs.
Rise of the AI shopping agent gets big banks hot under the collar (opens the original)
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Commonwealth Bank has long been one of the country’s most enthusiastic adopters of artificial intelligence. Its chief executive, Matt Comyn, has repeatedly visited the United States since the launch of ChatGPT four years ago, gathering intelligence on AI’s growing capabilities. CBA even has a strategic investment in Claude’s developer, Anthropic. Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.
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