Jonathan Barrett
Senior Business Reporter at The Guardian Australia
Guardian Australia - senior business reporter
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msn.com | Luca Ittimani |Jonathan Barrett
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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theguardian.com | Luca Ittimani |Jonathan Barrett
One of Australia’s most popular savings account operators, ING, has ignored regulatory advice to tell customers when they are about to lose bonus rates on promotional accounts, leaving savers at risk of missing out. The practice has helped ING and other banks access customers’ money at little or no cost to finance other parts of their businesses, including profitable mortgage books.
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sg.finance.yahoo.com | Luca Ittimani |Jonathan Barrett
Luca Ittimani and Jonathan Barrett Sun, 22 June 2025 at 11:00 am GMT-4 5 min read ING says customers can check if they are eligible for bonus interest on their app but declined to comment on why the bank does not alert customers in real time.Photograph: Mauritz Antin/EPA One of Australia’s most popular savings account operators, ING, has ignored regulatory advice to tell customers when they are about to lose bonus rates on promotional accounts, leaving savers at risk of missing out.
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theguardian.com | Jonathan Barrett
Optus has agreed to pay a $100m penalty after conceding it engaged in unconscionable conduct when selling phones and contracts to hundreds of customers that could not afford them, did not want them, or didn’t even have coverage to use them. The negotiated penalty, if approved by a federal court judge, came after court action taken against Optus by the consumer regulator. If imposed, it would be the largest ever for the telco sector.
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theguardian.com | Jonathan Barrett
Jim Chalmers may need to make a “captain’s call” on whether to approve the takeover of Australian oil and gas giant Santos by the investment arm of an Abu Dhabi state-owned entity, according to analysts, amid questions over whether the proposal will boost domestic supplies. The board of the Adelaide-headquartered oil and gas company has expressed support for the $30bn bid that, if successful, would place a series of strategic assets into foreign-owned hands.
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