Reserve Bank Of Australia
Dollar dilemma: below parity and going south
Matt Wade After spending most of the past two years more valuable than the greenback, the Australian dollar has finally been driven well below parity with its American counterpart.
Journalists win appeal against order to reveal bribery case sources
Mark Russell Two Fairfax Media journalists have won their fight against a magistrate's decision to force them to give evidence in a bribery case that centres on Reserve Bank banknote subsidiary Securency.
Companies will flout credit card reforms
Rachel Wells Major companies are already trying to get around new rules which ban retailers from passing on excessive credit card surcharges to customers, consumer group says.
New charges in banknote bribery case
Richard Baker and Nick McKenzie Federal police have charged a ninth former Reserve Bank of Australia banknote executive with foreign bribery offences.
Bribery case involving Vietnamese spy dismissed
Maris Beck The bribery case over banknote deals brokered by a Vietnamese spy colonel has been dismissed.
Borrowers urged to walk as banks take their cut
Glenda Kwek MORTGAGE holders are being urged to ''vote with their feet'' and switch lenders as three of the big four banks held back part of the Reserve Bank of Australia's latest rate cut.
Bagman to tell all in notes scandal
Nick McKenzie and Richard Baker Star witness to testify against several former Reserve Bank of Australia bank note executives.
Fairfax dominates Walkley nominations
James Robertson FAIRFAX journalists have dominated nominations in print and online categories for this year's Walkley Awards, the highest honours in Australian journalism.
Banks fail to pass on full rate reduction
Kylie Williams Westpac, the Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank have cut their variable home loan rates but failed to match that of the Reserve Bank, citing the high costs of deposits.
Lawyers home in on bribes probe
Maris Beck Defence lawyers are scrutinising the police who investigated bribery at Reserve Bank companies, telling a court that evidence was tainted by investigators' bias.
Securency probe collected 'no evidence'
Maris Beck DEFENCE lawyers are scrutinising the police who investigated bribery at Reserve Bank companies, telling a court that evidence was tainted by investigators' bias.
Envoy seduced by spy feared that her office was bugged
Maris Beck A SENIOR Australian trade envoy who was seduced by a Vietnamese intelligence officer told police she feared her Hanoi offices were bugged.
Trade envoy feared offices bugged
Maris Beck A senior Australian trade envoy who was seduced by a Vietnamese intelligence officer told police she feared her Hanoi offices were bugged.
Reserve staffer testifies on bribes
Maris Beck Former RBA assistant governor says he believed bribery claims would have been reported.
Reserve 'told' lawyers to ensure official not too helpful to police
Maris Beck RBA directed lawyers to ensure that its only senior official to provide a statement to police did 'not provide any more assistance than was necessary', a court has heard.
Retailers, industry plead for rate cut
Struggling retailers and the ailing manufacturing industry are among the loudest pleading with the Reserve Bank of Australia to cut interest rates, arguing jobs and livelihoods are at stake.
RBA kept Costello in dark over graft memo
Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie Former federal treasurer Peter Costello says the Reserve Bank should have told him and police of a June 2007 memo detailing evidence of foreign bribery by one of its subsidiaries, but which was...
Envoy's link with Viet spy revealed
Nick McKenzie, Richard Baker A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected brides from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of...
Trade official in spy sex scandal
A high-ranking Australian embassy official had a secret affair with a Vietnamese spy colonel accused of receiving up to $20 million in suspected bribes from a subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of...
Reserve Bank account named in bribery case
Maris Beck A RESERVE Bank of Australia account in the United States was used to pay bribes, court documents allege, potentially putting it in breach of US anti-corruption laws.
