May 2022
Jamie Pherous lent $13m to Shine Lawyers
It is highly unusual for a public company to borrow money from a high-net-worth individual not in the money-lending business.
October 2020
Corporate Travel's Jamie Pherous, the boy who cried poor
The company founder spent more than $30 million on a house without windows but not a single dollar on his own transformative capital raising.
August 2020
Westpac's out-of-favour departees
Departure announcements can be read like diplomatic cables: their truest meaning is between the lines.
March 2020
Corporate Travel has enough money... today
Corporate Travel refuses to simply say how much cash it’s got left, which means not very much.
February 2020
Corporate Travel's Asia CEO unloads $3.5m shares in blackout
Larry Lo trousered $3.5 million jettisoning his Corporate Travel shares on January 15.
Even Morgans cuts Corporate Travel
Exactly which part of "continuous disclosure" remains unclear to Corporate Travel chairman Ewen Crouch?
January 2020
Corporate Travel's FY20 guidance now Wuhan delirium
On which planet can Jamie Pherous still maintain this fantasy guidance? The one where its accounts are make-believe anyway?
Corporate Travel in Christmas Eve acquisition misstatement of $336m
The company simply refuses to acknowledge – let alone justify – this publicly available inconsistency.
December 2019
Amex deal implies $725m value for Corporate Travel
What investor could interpret the Amex deal as anything but a forbidding input for Corporate Travel?
Tony Bellas marries Feros, not Pherous
Tony Bellas denied being in a relationship with Allens' Brisbane boss Erin Feros. Then he married her.
Departing Westpac director no longer setting AUSTRAC chief's pay
Ewen Crouch has resigned his position atop the Commonwealth Remuneration Tribunal.
November 2019
Westpac's PR boss Carolyn McCann must go
After its unmitigated public relations fiasco, the Westpac brand needs a fresh keeper.
The travails of the would-be Westpac chairman
The bank's problems are the latest in a string of issues faced by companies of which Ewen Crouch is a director.
Maxsted resists push for more bloodshed
Westpac chairman Lindsay Maxsted says more departures will only serve to destablise and weaken the bank in a time of crisis.
Westpac directors don't do honourable
The Westpac board's obdurate precedence is self-preservation. It's perfectly disgusting.
Crouch in crosshairs of irate Westpac investors
Westpac board director Ewen Crouch will face an investor backlash when he goes up for re-election at the bank's looming AGM.
Hartzer, Jacques advance Australia fair
What a week it’s been for the foreign-born chiefs of Australia’s largest public companies.
Director jobs on the line at Westpac AGM
Westpac's AGM next month will be a flashpoint for the bank, which faces a second strike and has five directors up for election.
Corporate Travel's Ewen Crouch sticks to black-letter law
The new boss was light on detail answering questions from the floor.
October 2019
Corporate Travel plans AGM technology demo
Make no mistake, Corporate Travel Management is not a tech company.