ASX Announcements
Market Sensitive
Suspension of BOQPE Capital Notes
Suspension from Official Quotation
- Jul 26, 2024
- 1 page
Market Sensitive
REDEMPTION OF CAPITAL NOTES TRADING AS BOQPE
Issued Capital - Other
- Jul 19, 2024
- 4 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - BOQ
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Jul 5, 2024
- 9 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - BOQ
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Jul 4, 2024
- 6 pages
June
Finance sector union not opposed to ANZ’s $4.9b Suncorp bank buy
The federal treasurer, a Queenslander with close ties to the state government, has been considering the takeover of the Brisbane-based bank since April.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird and John Kehoe
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The top 21 moments in Chanticleer history
The Chanticleer column has charted the highs and lows of corporate Australia since 1974. Here are a few of the highlights.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
ASIC says it is probing three lenders for credit breaches
The admission comes just weeks after the corporate regulator accused lenders of creating “unnecessary barriers” that hindered under-pressure customers.
- Lucas Baird and James Eyers
April
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
BOQ says selling more mortgages will make its ugly position worse
Don’t be fooled by the pop in Bank of Queensland’s share price. Its big profit drop underscores the raft of structural challenges it is facing.
- Updated
- James Thomson
BoQ shares surge on earnings surprise but rough road ahead
Continuing pressure on margins and an “unfair playing field” means the regional lender needs additional ways to improve returns, says CEO.
- Lucas Baird
Star probe adjourned; BOQ’s mortgage gripe; China’s Aussie ‘assault’
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Opinion
- Regulation
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
March
BoQ backs Temenos amid claims software provider selling ‘vapourware’
Activist investor Hindenburg Research alleges the company has employed aggressive accounting practices and sold faulty products to local lenders.
- Lucas Baird
February
Loan competition among largest banks ‘diminishing’: Citi
Ahead of earning season, brokers say the major lenders, along with Macquarie, are consolidating their market share and growing faster than the broader sector.
- James Eyers
January
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
10 CEOs under the pump in 2024
Activist shareholders, grumpy regulators and politicians looking for someone to blame are likely to keep the heat on these leaders in the year ahead.
- James Thomson
Bank fined for giving home borrowers wrong information
Lenders have been put on notice to use “very high levels of diligence” on software systems after the Federal Court fined Members Equity Bank $820,000 for sending home loan customers letters with inaccurate information.
- Jenny Wiggins
BoQ will underperform this year, says fund manager shorting bank
Plato Investments’ David Allen says the regional lender will “always struggle” despite a late-year rally that saw other short-sellers close off their positions.
- Lucas Baird
December 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023
Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Updated
- AGM season
Late, overloaded board papers blindsided directors: BoQ chair
Shareholders delivered a stinging rebuke to Bank of Queensland after risk failures triggered two regulatory actions this year.
- Liam Walsh
November 2023
George Frazis plots comeback
Frazis is preparing for his next innings – this time as an adviser on debt capital markets deals.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Turnbull’s former private secretary appointed RBA spinner
Malcolm Turnbull’s former private secretary, Sally Cray, has been appointed as the Reserve Bank of Australia’s new chief communications officer.
- John Kehoe
BoQ hit by fifth executive departure in a year
Martine Jager’s exit from the bank, where she was chief people and customer officer, was announced to staff on Friday.
- Liam Walsh
Westpac to dump PwC as its auditor
The bank said it would not invite the embattled firm, its current auditor, to tender for external audit services, citing “best practice for audit firm rotation”.
- James Eyers, Lucas Baird and Edmund Tadros
‘Weak board decision-making’: APRA hits RAC Insurance
The prudential regulator’s action against the West Australian organisation marks its latest snap at customer-owned insurers.
- Liam Walsh
October 2023
Suncorp cuts management jobs in latest finance sector losses
But the company does not expect any other major changes ahead of an appeal on the decision to block the sale of its banking arm to ANZ scheduled for next year.
- Liam Walsh