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St.George Bank plans to release an iPad app for customers to access St.George Internet Banking from Apple’s iPad tablet within the next week.

MYOB has appointed Don Gregg as Partner Relations Manager to link together external stakeholders for MYOB, including accountants, retailers and developers.

National Australia Bank (NAB) has recorded the worst customer service of the big four banks across two separate surveys released this week.

The Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, Chris Bowen MP, has today released draft legislation cracking down on market offences, such as insider trading.

Global economic growth is returning after the GFC, but full recovery will not occur until December 2010, according to the latest edition of the bi-annual Regus BusinessTracker survey.

Superannuation funds were slightly down in April, by a negligible 0.1 percent, following the mixed performance of global share markets due to the Greek sovereign debt crisis.

Senior finance executives from major corporations across Australia and Asia have the brightest outlook for economic recovery worldwide.

Transurban is still a takeover target for CP2 investment fund after its advances were spurned with a capital raising on the open market.

Australian businesses will receive a significant boost in support for research and development, under new R&D tax incentive legislation introduced into Parliament today.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission welcomes the announcement by eBay that it will change the ebay.com.au website and payment policies to remove the requirement that sellers offer PayPal as a payment option.

MYOB today unveiled MYOB LiveAccounts, an online accounting solution for Australian businesses that need to raise invoices, track expenses and manage income – online.

CSR has posted a net loss for 2010 of $111.7 million, an improvement on the $326.5 million loss in 2009, a 66 percent improvement for the company.

Small business owners have received the predictable federal budget they needed to continue to climb out of the wake of the global financial crisis.

Small business is crying out for much needed tax reform that was missing from last night’s Federal Budget, with small business overwhelmed with regulatory burden.

Amongst the Budget announcements last night was the unveiling of the most significant changes to GST since its introduction by former PM John Howard in 2000.

Auction clearance rates have collapsed in three of Australia’s largest markets, after successive interest rate increases from the Reserve Bank. Listings were also down in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

The Commonwealth Bank will shut down their structured finance division, with department head Leanne Leong resigning after an internal review.

Virgin Blue’s new chief executive, John Borghetti will pocket up to $4.5 million this year, 60 percent more than his predecessor Brett Godfrey.

Ford Australia is hoping a $19 million profit after three years of losses will save the company from closing its Geelong, Victoria manufacturing plant.

The Australian Energy Regulator has approved a 9.2 percent price increase for Queensland’s electricity providers, Energex and Ergon Energy beginning July 1st.