ASX Announcements
Notification of cessation of securities - ABA
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Feb 11, 2025
- 4 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - ABA
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Feb 11, 2025
- 6 pages
Market Sensitive
Supreme Court of New South Wales approves Scheme
Scheme of Arrangement
- Feb 7, 2025
- 2 pages
August 2024
MyState, Auswide agree to binding regional bank merger
Street Talk understands the regional banks have entered into a transformative binding scheme implementation agreement.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
January 2024
The day a Port Hedland bank overflowed with too much cash
After 37 years in banking, the outgoing CEO of Auswide Bank reflects on the big four’s blunders, and life in boom-time WA.
- Liam Walsh
March 2023
Home loan competition could intensify, smaller banks say
As industry growth slows, smaller lenders say a battle for market share could spark more competition for home loans.
- Liam Walsh
November 2022
Why this bank chair believes directors shouldn’t own shares
Swimming against trends, a regional bank chairwoman has argued she philosophically believes that independent directors cannot hold shares in their company.
- Liam Walsh
August 2022
How ANZ might mimic Westpac to profit from Suncorp bid
The CEO of Auswide Bank, who has seen how big four banks swallow regional rivals, laid out how ANZ might copy Westpac’s St George buyout.
- Liam Walsh
February 2022
‘Weathered worst of margin pressure’: big banks v Auswide
Some banks were offering $2000 cash back if customers refinanced with them, but this regional lender felt this was a mug’s game.
- Liam Walsh
February 2021
CUA dumps 75-year credit union branding for ‘bank’
Not everyone was grasping quickly what a credit union did, even for Australia’s biggest credit union.
- Liam Walsh
December 2020
APRA signals more mergers among mutual banks
The sector is under pressure to increase investment to fend off technology-focused competitors that are luring their customers away.
- James Eyers
November 2020
COVID-19 infects sponsor networking amid Origin biffo
Border restrictions and the virus are interrupting usual interactions for bosses of key sponsors.
- Liam Walsh
August 2020
Afterpay's share jump frustrates bank CEO
A profit-making bank is worth less than 1 per cent of the share value of the buy now, pay later market darling.
- Liam Walsh
May 2020
Battle for vote on $60m mutual bank takeover
Will members back a deal worth thousands of dollars each? A customer-owned lender argues it's too cheap an offer.
- Liam Walsh
Virus credit cards attract up to 20pc interest
Some banks are cutting interest rates on credit cards for customers who might be struggling to repay debts during the pandemic, but others are charging more than 20 per cent interest.
- Liam Walsh and James Frost
February 2020
Traditional bank war cooling for deposits, says Auswide
But while competition with traditional banks is less fierce, the regional lender wonders if neobanks are being too aggressive.
- Liam Walsh
September 2019
Trying time: Auswide says Origin jersey scores over TV ads
Brand recognition improves, but the bank pledges it will improve efficiency and costs.
- Liam Walsh
July 2019
Auswide's tough hunt for mutual love
Attempts to win over a customer-owned lender in a deal worth an estimated $170m were unsuccessful.
- Liam Walsh
October 2014
Archer readies its counter-argument for Abano stoush
Fresh from its stoush over the Sage-MYOB affair, private equity firm Archer Capital is gearing up for another legal battle, this time over last year’s failed takeover of NZX-listed Abano Healthcare.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Jake Mitchell
May 2014
Shareholder activists sharpen knives as disputes rise
The wave of shareholder activism is beginning to be felt in Australia. Roc Oil, Antares Energy, and Nexus Group have all been targeted in the last few weeks.
- Updated
- Michael Smith
- Opinion
Archer secures exclusivity on Next Capital’s Aero-Care
Archer Capital is in exclusive negotiations to buy private equity-owned baggage handler Aero-Care, sources said on Tuesday.
- Updated
Rebel Abano shareholders push for meeting on chairman
Rebel shareholders in New Zealand’s Abano Healthcare, which owns a string of dental practices in Australia, have stepped up pressure on the board to set a date for an extraordinary general meeting to vote on the chairman’s future.
- Michael Smith
November 2013
Archer group withdraws Abano takeover offer
A bidding group of Archer Capital, Peter Hutson and James Reeves has withdrawn a proposed takeover for Abano Healthcare following an independent valuer saying the target's shares were worth more.
- Updated