CBA boss says repaying ‘excessive fees’ to low-income customers could be seen as taking shareholder money

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Commonwealth Bank Australia– which reported a record cash profit of $10.3bn in most recent financial year – charged $270m in ‘excessive fees’ over five years

The head of Australia’s biggest and most profitable bank says reimbursing hundreds of millions of dollars in fees to its lower income customers would be an “appropriation” of shareholder money.

The Commonwealth Bank’s chief executive, Mat Comyn, mounted a fierce defence of charging fees according to its terms and conditions during a parliamentary committee hearing in Canberra on Tuesday morning,

Source: www.theguardian.com

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Liberals to target international students and skilled migrants in proposed cuts to immigration

The Coalition is preparing to thrash out the design of a policy to significantly reduce immigration placesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastLiberal MPs say skilled migration and international student numbers must be cut to reduce overseas arrivals into Australia, but have warned colleagues against demonising […]

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