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Jeff Byrne, managing director, global transaction services, Westpac institutional bank.

Heading towards real-time payment advantages

The NSW government has taken the lead to become an innovative payments frontrunner across the Australian economy.

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March

Westpac chief executive Anthony Miller ...........

Westpac launches internal home loan fraud probe after RAMS closure

The major lender has been conducting a deep dive of mortgages originated in-house amid concerns that borrowers are increasingly misrepresenting their finances.

January

The big four banks delivered an average total return of 33 per cent in 2024.

Super the key to untangling CBA share price puzzle: JPMorgan

New data shows superannuation funds increased their holdings in Australia’s big four banks last year despite fund managers’ moves to dump the sector.

October 2024

Westpac estimates 84 per cent of the tax cuts have been saved in offset and deposit accounts, according to analysis of 1 million customer accounts.

Millions put tax cut money straight into the bank

Westpac estimates 84 per cent of the tax cuts have been saved in offset and deposit accounts, according to analysis of 1 million customer accounts.

Getting the business model right is one of the biggest hurdles to developing a viable offshore wind sector in Australia.

Long-term vision needed to kickstart local offshore wind sector

Many countries are already reaping the benefits of this renewable resource.

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September 2024

Do you know this week’s news? Answer these 10 questions

Have you been paying attention this week? Test your knowledge across politics, business and world news.

August 2024

Jeff Byrne managing director, global transaction services, Westpac institutional bank.

Get ready for the real-time payments revolution

A new biller system is the centrepiece – and potentially a game-changer – in the real-time payments revolution.

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July 2024

Anna Wiley, BHP’s asset president of copper South Australia; Siobhan Toohill, Westpac’s chief sustainability officer; Tammy Medard, managing director of ANZ’s Institutional in Australia and PNG.

‘I shot Bambi’: Women leaders on their toughest decisions

Often the toughest decisions are those that affect other people. Here winners of the Women in Leadership awards share their hardest calls.

Credit Suisse’s top brass in Australia will spend the next few months trying to work out what the UBS deal means for their teams and business.

Credit Suisse COO set to pop up at Westpac

Street Talk understands chief operating officer Katrina Glover has left the Swiss investment bank after 19 years. 

May 2024

Joshua Thurlow, chief executive lithium at diversified miner Mineral Resources (MinRes).

EVs need to move mainstream to drive transition minerals

When an electric vehicle can compete at the same price point as an entry-level internal combustion engine, Australia’s future as a key supplier of transition minerals will be secured.

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March 2024

We are used to thinking of Sydney as the photogenic harbour city, but increasingly where things are happening is out west.

Western Sydney rocks as consumers stay close to home

Western Sydney’s economy is outperforming other parts of Sydney as consumers adjust their spending.

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October 2023

Gaps are emerging in planning and policy towards Australia’s ambitions for a future green hydrogen industry.

Pressure testing Australia’s hydrogen dream

Australia’s mighty push towards a clean hydrogen-powered future has been supercharged by optimism for its potential to solve the global decarbonisation challenge.

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June 2023

Around 1 million animal and plant species are believed to be threatened with extinction.

Biodiversity: a reckoning begins

While the world has enjoyed unprecedented global growth in recent decades, our stock of natural capital worldwide has declined.

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Putting a price on carbon is the first step in implementing policies to reduce emissions.

Finding certainty in a transitioning world

At first glance, the revised safeguard mechanism with its tight timeline and kick-off date of 1 July might seem daunting in its complexity.

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March 2023

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce addresses business leaders at the recent Building a Sustainable Future roundtable.

Inflation ‘a tax on the poor’: Qantas boss Joyce

Sustainable Business roundtable participants say we may be stepping into a period where it feels like inflation is going to be high no matter what central banks do.

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Seven Group chief executive Ryan Stokes discussing the role of natural gas in Australia’s energy transition, at the Building a Sustainable Future roundtable.

The hard road to net zero

Sustainable Business roundtable participants say Australian government needs to step up more while engaged in an energy race with the rest of the world.

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Paul Schroder

Protection of super and equity the hot topics

Sustainable Business roundtable participants want policy-makers to consider how superannuation can be protected from the needs of the day.

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Deanne Stewart, chief executive of industry super fund giant Aware Super, speaking at the sustainability roundtable.

Negative attitudes on corporate success ‘a threat’, say super funds

Energy transition requires Australia and the world to be on the same page. Sustainable Business roundtable participants say this is the team Australia moment.

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Business leaders gather at the recent Building a Sustainable Future roundtable.

$1 trillion infrastructure boom in the balance

Sustainable Business roundtable discusses the challenges confronting businesses as they’ve had to ramp up operations after three years of being mothballed.

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Anthony Miller is Chief Executive, Westpac Institutional Bank.

Finding the opportunities in a sustainable future

Sustainability is about getting to net zero while not only maintaining our way of life and our economy — but ideally by improving them for everybody.

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