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- Dec 30, 2024
- 5 pages
This Month
Australian bosses hooked on migrants, global survey shows
A global survey has found that rather than investing locally, Australian employers want migration to do the heavy lifting to fill skills shortages.
- Michelle Bowes
CEOs reveal how to fix the productivity problem
Business reckons it’s ready to invest to help bolster living standards for all Australians. It just needs some policy help.
- Updated
- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
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
Troubled RAMS trips to $18.6m loss
Westpac had earlier in the year failed to find a buyer for the business, which is involved in two court cases alleging fraud.
- Lucas Baird
ASX falls 1pc; More Liberal chaos; Good, bad, ugly of corporate Oz
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
- Exclusive
- Housing crisis
‘Profit vaporised by time’: Westpac boss backs council reform to fix housing
Anthony Miller has thrown his weight behind the NSW government’s ambitious push to bypass local councils and reform planning laws.
- Lucas Baird
Suburban pub grub suits Westpac’s new CEO
Living in Sydney’s inner west makes Anthony Miller an outlier among big bank chiefs. The former investment banker is determined to make his firm stand out, too.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
Westpac CFO retires, giving Miller chance to reshape leadership
Michael Rowland said he would leave next year, taking to three the number of senior positions to be filled by the bank’s new chief executive.
- James Eyers and Lucas Baird
Calls grow for Westpac to reveal energy transition plan thinking
Australian Ethical and Market Forces have put forward a resolution for a second year seeking more detail on the bank’s assessment of borrowers’ transition plans.
- James Eyers
Cut surcharges by divorcing debit and credit, Westpac tells RBA
Blended pricing structures charge retailers a flat fee no matter the card, and lead to debit card users subsidising benefits for credit card users.
- Lucas Baird and James Eyers
- 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
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
NAB won’t lean on rates in fight for business lending crown
“You have to be competitive on price – that is the ticket to the game – but you don’t have to be the cheapest,” business banking boss Rachel Slade says.
- Lucas Baird
November 2024
Economists abandon hopes of RBA cutting rates in February
Economists at AMP, ANZ and Bank of Queensland have joined a chorus of forecasters expecting rate cuts no sooner than May.
- Alex Gluyas and Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Frothy market’s two biggest winners make up for all the year’s losers
On a day when the ASX 200 hits another record high, it’s worth thinking about which stocks are driving it. Two have done this year’s heavy lifting.
- Anthony Macdonald
- Opinion
- Big four
Chalmers sells intervention as economic salve
The US may have a different culture, but its politics still provide a recent lesson in the electoral risks of rural voters feeling ignored by governments or left out of services.
- Jennifer Hewett
Westpac warns rate cuts may be delayed beyond May
Chief economist Luci Ellis, who was previously the RBA’s top forecaster, warned cuts could be even later than May if inflation did not decline in line with forecasts.
- Michael Read
- Exclusive
- Big four
Bankers split as Chalmers kicks off branch levy negotiations
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has kick-started face-to-face negotiations with bank CEOs about a potential new $350 million levy, but bankers are split over the proposal.
- John Kehoe and Lucas Baird
QIC bets on Aussie climate tech companies, backs $200m VC
Queensland’s sovereign fund has joined Westpac and Clean Energy Finance Corporation in backing Virescent Ventures’ second climate-focused fund.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport