November 2024
Inside the Birdcage at Flemington’s Derby Day
With Tabcorp focusing on customers and Lexus on models, Crown’s marquee reigned supreme as the best people-spotting location of the day.
- Myriam Robin, Zoe Samios and Patrick Durkin
October 2024
- Analysis
- Mining
Inside the contest to succeed Ken MacKenzie at the top of BHP
It has been one of the most coveted prizes in corporate life. The next chairman of the Big Australian will have profound influence on the entire market.
- Patrick Durkin
July 2024
Prudential watchdog halves $1b Westpac penalty
APRA will slash its $1 billion capital penalty levied on the bank four years after it was first implemented.
- Lucas Baird
May 2024
- Exclusive
- Courts
Westpac sues insurers over $1.3b AUSTRAC penalty
AFR Weekend understands that the bank believes it is eligible to claim $400 million from its insurers over the AUSTRAC fine.
- Lucas Baird
March 2024
Untangling KPMG’s excruciating closeness to Westpac
Westpac is also KPMG’s banker, and a major consulting client of the big four firm. Auditors are meant to be independent, and so this just won’t do.
- Myriam Robin
October 2023
- Updated
- Executive shake-up
Steven Gregg to succeed Westpac chairman McFarlane
The chairman of Ampol will take the top board seat at Westpac from next month and will be leaving his post as chairman of Lottery Corp.
- Lucas Baird
October 2022
Transurban likely to sidestep second strike at AGM
Transurban is likely to avoid a second strike against its pay report at its annual general meeting on Thursday after Australia’s biggest toll road group slashed executive bonuses and set tougher performance targets.
- Jenny Wiggins
August 2022
Transurban bell tolls for Lindsay Maxsted
It’s been an interminable six years since Maxsted told Transurban’s 2016 annual meeting he’d look to step down before 2019.
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why these leadership duos outperformed
Changing of the chairs at the top of three top-performing companies is an opportunity to examine why some boards and CEOs work extremely well.
- Tony Boyd
Transurban’s new chairman: ‘I take nothing for granted’
Future Transurban chairman Craig Drummond says he will be across the “detail” when he succeeds Lindsay Maxsted in October.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
May 2022
Victorian Liberal elders find other causes to celebrate
As for the proper election night parties/wakes, well, they don’t bear thinking about.
- Myriam Robin
October 2021
Transurban hit with first strike on remuneration report
The chairman blamed proxy firms for a first strike against the tollroad group’s remuneration report, claiming the big short-term bonuses paid to executives during the pandemic were ‘fair’.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
September 2021
Six business leaders predict the future for boards
As part of our series celebrating BOSS turning 21, we asked six leading chairs about the future of boards.
- Patrick Durkin
October 2020
The 'gold standard' temporarily loses its glitter
NSW's new coronavirus outbreak has diverted attention away from the southern capital. It will also have the Morrison government nervously watching on. Here's your Thursday briefing.
- Kris Swales
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Transurban steers for steadier ground
The toll road group insists its move to sell equity stakes in US toll roads isn't a sign of stress. But it does suggest a more cautious stance.
- James Thomson
September 2020
- Opinion
- AUSTRAC crackdown
Westpac's culture lesson: don't block bad news
Cultural failings that go to core competence – in Westpac's case providing financial services safely for legitimate customers and keeping the creeps and criminals on the outer – can be very damaging.
- Ben Potter
State Street hit with AUSTRAC fine, infringement notice
The US custodian bank said it has a remediation plan to address compliance issues.
- James Eyers
Aged care deaths 'far worse' than banking royal commission offences
Melbourne businessman Mike Fitzpatrick has called for political accountability for the inflated COVID-19 deaths in Victorian aged care facilities, arguing the failures are 'far worse' than financiers who lost their jobs from the banking royal commission.
- John Kehoe
August 2020
Westpac's out-of-favour departees
Departure announcements can be read like diplomatic cables: their truest meaning is between the lines.
- Myriam Robin
July 2020
Westpac appoints KPMG partner as new CFO
The big four bank has appointed senior partner Michael Rowland to the position as it prioritises stability over growth.
- James Frost