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Ex-CBA business banking chiefs land at real estate group

Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

Apr 7, 2025 – 5.00am

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Four months after Commonwealth Bank shuffled the decks in its business banking unit, retrenched senior executives are making moves.

Hotel, tourism and leisure outfit HTL Group has swooped on former CommBank general manager of client acquisition Mario Saia and NSW head of client acquisition Andrew Hazell to establish a debt advisory business under its umbrella.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.

Emma Rapaport is a co-editor of the Street Talk column. Prior to that, she was a markets reporter at The Australian Financial Review.