Laine Gordon

Head of Public Relations

Laine Gordon is the Head of Public Relations at RateCity and an experienced journalist and research specialist. With a background in news and feature writing, covering finance, media and even food (a passion of hers) at Reed Elsevier publications, Laine brings almost two decades of experience to the team. Having covered major areas of interest to the general public from hip pocket issues to rising and falling interest rates and the impact to mortgages, credit and saving in Australia, she is passionate about researching and telling people’s stories to help others make better decisions about their own finances.

727 articles written by Laine Gordon

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Bank Accounts

Neo banks are live – but do they live up to the hype?

Australia’s neo banking market is heating up with 86 400 officially opening its doors today, and neo-rival Xinja receiving its full banking licence from APRA yesterday.

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Car Loans

Three ways to pay off your car loans

Are you taking out a car loan to land some shiny new wheels? Be sure to contemplate how you'll pay the money back over time.

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Credit Cards

Australians ditch credit cards by the hundreds of thousands

Today’s RBA credit card statistics show the continued demise of credit cards in Australia.

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Car Loans

Three ways to pay off your car loan

Are you taking out a car loan to land some shiny new wheels? Be sure to contemplate how you'll pay the money back over time.

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Credit Cards

Australians starting to kick the credit card debt addiction

Australia’s credit card debt accruing interest has slid to the lowest level in over 11 years as Australians start to wean themselves off high interest debt.

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Home Loans

ANZ shocks by not passing on full RBA rate cut

The RBA has finally taken the plunge, cutting the cash rate to a new low of 1.25 per cent.

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Home Loans

Another one bites the dust, ING the latest lender to hike home loan rates

ING is lifting variable home loan rates by 15 basis points, impacting both new and existing variable home loan customers.

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Credit Cards

Credit card companies slam on the brakes, as customers look for plastic alternatives

The screws are being tightened on Australia’s debt obsession, with the number of credit card accounts and the total value of credit limits both falling in the most recent RBA statistics.

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Home Loans

Bank of Queensland kicks off rate hikes for 2019

Bank of Queensland is the first bank to officially hike home loan rates out of cycle in 2019. Today’s announcement affects a range of BOQ variable rate loans including their Economy Variable Home Loan which is increasing by 0.11 per cent for new and existing customers.

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Home Loans

APRA calls time out on the interest only cap in a bid to breathe life back into home lending

APRA’s announcement today that it will remove its temporary benchmark on interest-only lending from 1 January 2019 is a bid to steady the home loan market, says comparison site RateCity.com.au.