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This Month
Super the key to untangling CBA share price puzzle: JPMorgan
New data shows superannuation funds increased their holdings in Australia’s big four banks last year despite fund managers’ moves to dump the sector.
- Emma Rapaport
CBA tightens grip on mortgage crown while Westpac relents
‘Far more competitive’ CBA extends dominance of home lending market, adding almost $16 billion to its loan book in just five months.
- Lucas Baird
December 2024
What the average first home buyer looks like (according to the banks)
The country’s biggest lenders have offered a glimpse into their lending habits in the midst of a debate over whether to ease rules for younger borrowers.
- Lucas Baird
The stocks that did the most damage in 2024 – and the ones that ruled
One fintech darling has more than tripled in the past 12 months, but the same can’t be said for lithium stocks on the front line of the EV slowdown.
- Joshua Peach and Joanne Tran
ASX falls 1pc; More Liberal chaos; Good, bad, ugly of corporate Oz
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
How CBA’s $3 fee gambit nearly blew up the bank’s political capital
Bankers inside Commonwealth Bank’s retail division figured a small branch cash withdrawal charge was innocuous. They were wrong.
- Lucas Baird and James Eyers
Commonwealth Bank government relations tsar jumps to Blackstone
Euan Robertson is leaving the $265 billion bank and making a beeline for the world’s largest alternative asset manager.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
CBA’s Matt Comyn on banking, politics and the economy
In a special episode, Commonwealth Bank boss Matt Comyn speaks exclusively to the Chanticleer podcast about the bank’s runaway share price, where the economy is headed and why politics needs to change.
- Exclusive
- Banking products
CBA’s Comyn warns ‘troubling’ loss of trust will make reform harder
Matt Comyn has warned the economic reform Australia must pursue is only going to become more difficult if polarising attacks on the business community continue.
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
CBA’s relentless rally in five charts
The stellar advance in Australia’s biggest bank makes no “logical sense” to investors, yet the shares keep grinding higher. Here’s why.
- Cecile Lefort and Sarah Jones
- Opinion
- Domestic violence
Banks, insurers must do better on silent epidemic of financial abuse
There are the men who perpetrate financial abuse, but there are also the platforms which have for too long been unprepared to confront the damage they facilitate.
- Deborah O'Neill
Albanese blocks China with $140m Nauru deal
The new treaty with the Pacific nation gives Australia a veto over security, banking and teleco agreements – and comes with a $140m price tag.
- Andrew Tillett
Westview plans $750m steel mill for Brisbane as Gupta woes worsen
The privately owned supplier of reinforced steel rods is concerned about being too reliant on Chinese imports, and wants the new plant to be operating by 2027.
- Simon Evans
UBS, Citi, ANZ and CBA navigate fraught Christmas parties
The investment bankers of Sydney held their year-end dos against a backdrop of complex contextual matters.
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Meet our Business People of the Year | GDP grumpiness | CBA’s rare slip
This week on the Chanticleer podcast, James and AFR Editor-in-Chief James Chessell take you inside the AFR’s Business Person of the Year awards, examine business’ angst over the economy and look at an uncharacteristic political blunder by the Commonwealth Bank.
Australia’s 50 highest-paid CEOs in 2024 revealed
Macquarie Group’s Shemara Wikramanayake is Australia’s best-paid CEO for the fourth year in a row.
- Patrick Durkin
Trophies and sequins as Australia’s business leaders gonged
A $70,000 Rolex and a sequined jacket show life is sweet for the victors, though the path isn’t always smooth.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin and Mark Di Stefano
Banks, insurers told to work harder to prevent financial abuse
A committee chaired by Labor senator Deborah O’Neill has tabled 61 recommendations to reduce the insidious practice.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
No one has come out of CBA’s cash blunder looking good
The bank’s fee mess is an uncharacteristic stuff-up. But it’s also a missed opportunity to have proper debate about technology, economic growth and equity.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Business People of the Year
Matt Comyn finds his voice – and delivers for shareholders
The CEO has driven the Commonwealth Bank from strength to strength, propelling him on to the 2024 The Australian Financial Review Business People of the Year list.
- James Eyers