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Notification regarding unquoted securities - BEN

Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)

  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 6 pages

Dividend/Distribution - BENPH

Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate

  • Dec 18, 2024
  • 5 pages

Dividend/Distribution - BENPI

Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate

  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 5 pages

Change to Record Date for BENPH and BENPI

Dividend Record Date

  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 1 page

2025 Financial Calendar

Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Notice of Meeting - Other, Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Reinvestment Plan, Company Administration - Other

  • Dec 16, 2024
  • 1 page

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This Month

Partisan appointments would have compromised the new board and tainted any decision to deliver pre-election rate relief.

Credit to Chalmers for non-partisan RBA picks

The Coalition’s fears that a Labor treasurer would stack the new board with political appointees have not been borne out. The crucial independence and credibility of the central bank have been preserved.

  • The AFR View

November

A CBA ATM in Hay, NSW,  on Sunday. CBA has put a moratorium on closing any more regional branches.

Macquarie, Westpac and CBA big losers from $350m rural bank levy

Confidential details shared with industry participants show the size of the cost to the biggest lenders as Treasury attempts to keep regional branches open.

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  • John Kehoe and Joshua Peach
“We don’t want to use price as a lever for growth,” new Bendigo & Adelaide chief Richard Fennell said.

New Bendigo boss’ first move? Raising mortgage rates for Up customers

Richard Fennell said the digital challenger brand would lift interest rates for borrowers in the coming days. It is the cheapest offering in the market.

  • Lucas Baird

October

Anson Parker,  chief product officer of Up: “We see banking through the lens of, ‘Why are these experiences so crappy, compared to what they could be?’”

You’ll thank this bank for making you wait hours for your savings

This neo-bank wants to do money differently, and teach its customers how to take control of their budgets.

  • Lucy Dean

September

Chairman David Foster at the Star inquiry on April 23.

David Foster out of Bendigo and Adelaide after bruising Star inquiry

He had been on the bank’s board since 2019, and was its chairman until April when he went on leave amid a NSW inquiry into the casino, where he was also chair.

  • Lucas Baird
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August

Geoff Wilson is in the same boat as everyone else at the end of this exhausting profit season – trying to pinpoint exactly where we are in this cycle.

What I learnt from 30 CEOs in 30 days

The profit season has delivered a confusing picture of an economy stuck between cycles. Here are 30 nuggets to help investors navigate this tricky environment. 

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  • James Thomson
Bendigo & Adelaide Bank Chief Executive Officer Marnie Baker.

The 6-minute mortgage: lender unveils new weapon in home loan wars

The lender reported a decline in profit for the past 12 months. And rivals are threatening to re-heat the intense battle for borrowers that cut into margins.

  • Lucas Baird and James Eyers
NIB Holdings CEO Mark Fitzgibbon

Why NIB caught a post-COVID cold

The private health insurer feels the heat on margins, Bendigo & Adelaide Bank gets a grilling on costs and Dan Murphy’s owner Endeavour finds some wins from AI.

  • James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald

July

Federation’s Ashley Trbojevic and Neil Brown will join the Homesafe board, chaired by former Resimac chief executive Mary Ploughman.

Homesafe lands with local asset manager after Bendigo exit

Relative to comparable markets like Canada and the UK, “Homesafe has only started to scratch the surface of the service it can provide,” according to Federation founder, Cameron Brownjohn.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
David Foster is not making a stand.

Bendigo Bank’s David Foster resides on terra firma

The man will plot with his CEO to have casino regulators sued. But hold out on putting Aboriginal ownership front and centre? Rubbish.

  • Myriam Robin
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Trump’s ‘dangerous precedent’; ANZ lashed for fees; Bank names new CEO

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

The underestimated bank boss with the strategic handball

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s Marnie Baker was underestimated on arrival. She leaves well regarded, albeit having failed to answer the big structural question over her bank.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Richard Fennell will take over as Bendigo and Adelaide Bank’s CEO.

Bendigo Bank names new CEO

Marnie Baker is bowing out after six years at the helm of the regional lender, elevating Bendigo’s chief customer officer Richard Fennell to be its next CEO.

  • James Eyers

May

Rally hits a wall | Canva’s Wall St plan | Four market worries

Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.

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Bendigo Bank has a new marketing campaign painting it as a big bank, but more attentive to customers.

Why Bendigo Bank shares are up sharply this month

Bendigo’s senior management briefed analysts and investors on a new four-year strategy, which includes a new lending platform and push into business lending.

  • James Eyers
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April

The embattled Star Sydney is facing another round of public hearings.

Star inquiry fallout spreads to Bendigo bank board

Wednesday’s hearing was interrupted when Star’s solicitors released documents to the inquiry related to its former CFO, Christina Katsibouba.

  • Updated
  • Zoe Samios
Bendigo Bank Shane Gration admitted he was “not a big fan” of working in the office.

‘Two way street’: Umpire rules WFH push ignores face-to-face benefits

The Fair Work Commission has backed staff returning to the office for collaboration after dismissing a bank employee’s bid to work from home to care for his family.

  • David Marin-Guzman
Bank of Queensland CEO Patrick Allaway is about to deliver a 35 to 40 per cent fall in half-year profit.

Regional banks dying a slow death

The country’s smaller banks have a bleak future due to higher cost of funds, excessive capital requirements, costly technology upgrades and lack of scale. But will regulators do anything about it?

  • Tony Boyd

February

The Australian Competition Tribunal found, while an offer for Bendigo was “commercially realistic”, such a bid was “far from certain”.

ACCC’s Bendigo/Suncorp theory had ‘significant challenges’: court

A takeover of Suncorp’s bank from its fellow regional lender Bendigo & Adelaide Bank would face material execution risks, the Australian Competition Tribunal said.

  • Lucas Baird, James Eyers and Liam Walsh

ANZ/Suncorp deal ‘not good for competition or consumers’: Bendigo

The Australian Competition Tribunal will on Tuesday deliver its verdict on the $4.9 billion takeover, with the deal hanging in limbo for close to two years.

  • Lucas Baird

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