19 Aug Tailored Rural Funding Success Achieved
CLIENT POSITION The clients are broadacre and sheep farmers who were disappointed with the service from both bank and manager. The loan product that had...
12 Aug 0% Borrowing Rates
By Ian Robinson Conceptually you could buy large farming aggregations, industrial warehouses, portfolios of commercial property and blue-chip waterfronts. Without interest to pay, there is no...
09 Jul What Bank cut what Rates?
By Ian Robinson Two rate cuts in two months with maybe more to come. But with hundreds of loan products over dozens of lenders, how did...
09 Jul Breaking a Fixed Loan
By Ian Robinson Interest rates have materially fallen. That is the good news for all holders of variable loans. BUT there is a large percentage of fixed...
20 Jun Which is the Best Bank?
By Ian Robinson Writing commercial and agribusiness loans for the past 15 years builds up a war chest of intellectual property and proprietary from the perpetual...
20 Jun The 90 Second Bank Test: How does your bank rate?
By Ian Robinson Wouldn’t you like to know how important you are to your bank? This knowledge will then, after all, qualify the level of competent...
22 May Union of Banking Polarity: Green Shoots
By Ian Robinson The world of banking is seemingly becoming more alienated to the mere mortal borrower. There is outcry of Us vs THEM with an...
22 May Revelations of an Ex-Banker
(Yes that's Ian fishing for dinner at midnight on Greenland's west coast). By Ian Robinson With 20 years of banking stacked and compressed into a professional experience...
29 Apr 5 Quick Clues to your Business Loan Strength
The business has carried commercial debt for decades in various forms. The relationship with the bank has been harmonious for most part in parallel to...
14 Jan Economic Barometer: 10 Second Story Line
Ian's top tips for money market activity this year...