Consumer confidence fell last week as Australians’ perception of the economy at large took a sharp negative turn following the central bank’s decision not to cut the cash rate, ANZ analysts say. The ANZ-Roy Morgan Australian Consumer Confidence index slid by 2.1 per cent from the previous week, with the “time to buy a household […]
Financial technology startups are growing in Australia, from less than 100 in 2014 to approximately 579 companies today. Many financial businesses see this as a direct threat, but if our country is to have any hope of building a world-class financial services technology industry, the future lies not in competition, but in collaboration. We are […]
There has been a lot of talk about changes to credit card rewards programs in 2017. You might even have received a notification from your bank recently about how your rewards program is about to change. This is because of new interchange fee regulations that rolled out from 1 July 2017. In 2016, the Reserve […]
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Seven years ago, siblings Abigail and Jamie Forsyth founded KeepCup. They envisioned it as a business and a line of eco-friendly coffee cups in service of a campaign for behavioural change: ‘from discard to reuse’. Today, more than five million consumers worldwide have joined their ‘Reuse Revolution’. Abigail, the company’s managing director, spoke to Dynamic Business about the […]
Most of the upswing in consumer confidence that came as a result of the Government’s Budget has been reversed this week, according to the latest ANZ-Roy Morgan Consumer Confidence findings.
The last fortnight has seen a 5.4 per cent cumulative rise, with the Government’s Budget and the RBA rate cut seen in May being cited as key factors behind the boost.
The labour market has picked up according to the ANZ’s measurement of job ads, with the number of advertisements up 7.5 per cent over the last 12 months.
A new study has found the number of workplace meetings is rapidly on the rise, taking up increasing amounts of time, reducing productivity and largely seen by employees to provide valueless outcomes.
In 2013 the overall number of job advertisements declined by 9 per cent, suggesting that employers are hesitating to take on new staff.
