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100 days to go: Christmas countdown tips to ease festive budget squeeze

With 100 days to go until Christmas, Australians can ease the squeeze of festive spending by bolstering their budgets, leaning on loyalty programs, and taking advantage of early sales to get a bargain.

  • 16.09.2023
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  • Personal finance

No, not everyone you know is holidaying in Europe right now

New NAB data reveals that – no – not everyone you know is holidaying in Europe or Bali right now, as higher travel costs coupled with the rising cost of living have seen Aussies become more considered consumers.

  • 31.07.2023
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  • Personal finance

NAB supporting younger Australians facing cost of living pressures

New NAB Economics data released today reveals younger Australians are feeling more financially stressed than their parents and grandparents and are more concerned over rising living costs than older age groups.

  • 26.07.2023
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  • Personal finance

Kids and pets top of list for considered consumers

New NAB research reveals that despite a rising cost of living, Australians are determined to prioritise spending on their children and pets and are making ‘considered choices’ to meet the cost of school fees, children’s sports and insurance.

  • 24.07.2023
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  • Personal finance

How to save hundreds a year by avoiding subscription ‘Set and Regret’

Australians are avoiding ‘Set and Regret’ and already making savings worth more than $600 each year by better managing their spending on streaming and subscription services.

  • 20.07.2023
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  • Personal finance

NAB’s half-million check-ins reveals nation of ‘considered consumers’

NAB has today reached a key milestone in its ongoing program offering support to customers who need it, while revealing Australians are becoming ‘considered consumers’.

  • 29.06.2023
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  • Personal finance

NAB takes on financial abuse

In a bid to stamp out financial abuse NAB has today announced an important update to its terms and conditions that will allow bankers to ‘cut-off’ customers who’ve been identified as committing financial abuse – a first of its kind for a major Australian bank.

  • 26.06.2023
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  • Personal finance

Savvy Australians using brand loyalty to cash in

Australians are increasingly cashing in on loyalty programs by redeeming rewards points for cash in their pocket or supermarket gift cards as they look for more ways to contend with rising living costs.

  • 16.06.2023
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  • Scams

Customer shares the impact of being scammed

Sophisticated. Traumatic. Upsetting. That’s how NAB customer Chloe* describes being the victim of a spoofing scam.  

  • 26.04.2023
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  • Personal finance

Gen Z leading Aussies’ cash stash into high interest savings accounts

More than half of all Australians are stashing their cash in high interest savings accounts, driven by a surge in Gen Zs looking to make their money work harder for them.

  • 19.04.2023
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  • Customers

NAB CEO pens letter of support to customers

  • 18.04.2023
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NAB standing by Australians concerned about making ends meet

Four in ten Australians are experiencing some form of financial difficulty, the highest number since the start of the pandemic, new data from NAB shows.

  • 03.03.2023
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  • Scams

NAB warns of new PayID scam targeting Aussies selling items online

Australians selling unwanted or used items on Facebook, Marketplace, Gumtree and other online websites are being urged to watch out for a new PayID impersonation scam.

  • 27.02.2023
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  • Personal finance

The humans behind NAB Assist

Meet Kelly, one of the many NAB Assist team members helping customers doing it tough.

  • 17.02.2023
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  • Personal finance

Savvy Australians expecting to earn, save more to counter cost-of-living

NAB data released today reveals that over the next 12 months a quarter of Australians expect to earn more, and three quarters are aiming to save more money, but the rising cost-of-living is causing increasing concern.

  • 17.02.2023
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