Key news and analysis of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia’s half year 2025 financial results.
CommBank CEO Matt Comyn:
1H25 result
“During the half, we continued to focus on supporting our customers, investing to protect the community, and providing strength and stability for the broader economy.
“Every day we lend to more than 200 businesses, help almost 400 households buy a home, process more than 20 million payments, and send customers 18,000 alerts about suspicious account activity.
We’ve invested more than $450 million to combat fraud and scams, and financial and cyber crime. Our continued investment has reduced customer fraud and scam losses by more than 70 per cent over the past two years.”
Supporting our customers
“We know many Australians are continuing to deal with cost-of-living pressures.
“This half, we maintained our focus on engaging with our customers on a range of support options, and provided more than 65,000 tailored payment arrangements for those most in need of support.
“We helped more than 3 million customers each month better manage their finances through our digital money management tools.
“And we’ve kept our promise to keep all of our regional branches open to support communities and jobs in regional Australia.”
Economic outlook
“The past four years have been challenging for households.
“There are some risks around the outlook, however there are reasons for optimism in the Australian economy, with near record low unemployment and real disposable incomes starting to lift.
“We know many households are looking forward to lower rates.
“Continued effort is required to get underlying inflation sustainably into the target band.”