December 2024
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
Credible appointments will improve Reserve Bank board
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has selected two good candidates and should be congratulated for shoring up the RBA at a pivotal time in the inflation fight.
- John Kehoe
August 2024
The 6-minute mortgage: lender unveils new weapon in home loan wars
The lender reported a decline in profit for the past 12 months. And rivals are threatening to re-heat the intense battle for borrowers that cut into margins.
- Lucas Baird and James Eyers
July 2024
Bendigo Bank names new CEO
Marnie Baker is bowing out after six years at the helm of the regional lender, elevating Bendigo’s chief customer officer Richard Fennell to be its next CEO.
- James Eyers
May 2024
Why Bendigo Bank shares are up sharply this month
Bendigo’s senior management briefed analysts and investors on a new four-year strategy, which includes a new lending platform and push into business lending.
- James Eyers
January 2024
CBA, NAB to disappoint investors as lending costs surge: Citi
The investment bank’s brokers say investors have put “the cart before the horse” after bank share prices lifted on the possibility of rate cuts this year.
- Updated
- Lucas Baird
October 2023
New Bendigo chairman not giving up on Queensland dream
David Foster, a former boss of Suncorp Bank, has taken the chairman’s seat at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, and remains keen to grow in regional Queensland.
- James Eyers
August 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why smaller banks like Bendigo and BoQ have a big problem
Bendigo & Adelaide Bank has made good progress on costs and returns. But as loan growth shrinks, scams rise and inflation keeps pushing higher, scale counts.
- James Thomson
Bendigo-Suncorp talks ‘not appropriate’ amid appeal to $4.9b ANZ deal
“There is a process to play out there, and I don’t think it is appropriate to while that process is in place,” Bendigo boss Marnie Baker said.
- Lucas Baird
April 2023
Suncorp says Bendigo, BoQ deals not ideal despite ACCC interest
The competition regulator has suggested the Brisbane-based company could merge with a similar-sized peer instead of sell its banking division to ANZ.
- Ayesha de Kretser
August 2022
Bendigo Bank CEO says booming regions underpin $500m profit
The regional lender has forecast a “bumpy” outlook as net interest margins get crunched again, with its shares down 7.8 per cent by mid-afternoon.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
February 2022
Bendigo combines rural and business bank, seeks new exec
Bendigo Bank MD Marnie Baker says merging the two divisions will “fast-track our transformation agenda” as the market looks to pressures at the first-half result.
- James Eyers
December 2021
These CEOs have solved work/life balance
Top female leaders are among the CEOs pushing back against the pressure of trying to balance professional and private lives by changing the question.
- James Thomson and Tony Boyd
November 2021
Little respite on rates or competition ahead, Baker says
There will be little relief for the banking sector heading into the new year as net interest margins compress further, Bendigo and Adelaide Bank CEO Marnie Baker says
- Lucas Baird
August 2021
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank profit surges, acquires fintech partner
Regional bank restores its second-half dividend after strong performance from home lending division.
- James Frost
February 2021
Afterpay’s Andrew Charlton v Klarna’s Matt Comyn
Even at an extortionate $375, tickets might be worth the price of admission...
- Joe Aston
January 2021
Learning to meditate and other new skills of CEOs
CEOs from Telstra, South32, Evolution Mining, Aware Super and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank reveal what they learnt in lockdown to take into 2021.
- Updated
- Sally Patten
August 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Bendigo's fortunes rest with consultants
Bendigo and Adelaide Bank is strongly capitalised and winning market share in mortgages. But its multi-year turnaround strategy will involve several years of poor returns for shareholders.
- Tony Boyd
December 2019
CEOs on how to get business investing
Rates might be falling, but Australia's top chief executives say prices and risks are rising.
- James Thomson and Tony Boyd
June 2019
How Marnie Baker made it from milking shed to bank chief
Bendigo Bank's chief says studying and working in a regional area meant she wasn't a slave to management fads or trendy business theories.
- James Frost