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Application for quotation of securities - BEN

Appendix 2A (Application for Quotation of Securities)

  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 7 pages

BEN Continuous Disclosure Policy

Company Administration - Other

  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 16 pages

BEN Securities Trading Policy

Trading Policy

  • Feb 5, 2025
  • 17 pages

BEN NED Appointment

Director Appointment/Resignation

  • Jan 31, 2025
  • 1 page

BEN FY25 Half Year Results Details

Notification of Results/Reporting Date, Web Casts

  • Jan 31, 2025
  • 1 page

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January

Peter Dutton says one of the core strengths of a Coalition government would be law and order.

Banks would face new loan regime under Coalition amid ESG pushback

Peter Dutton says bankers on multimillion-dollar pay packets who restrict lending on environmental grounds are out of step with ordinary Australians.

  • John Kehoe, James Hall and Lucas Baird

December 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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
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September 2024

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

August 2024

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 2024

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 2024

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

April 2024

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.

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  • 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 2024

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

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