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Nowhere to hide for NAB boss after drinking accusations
Banking circles have been awash with personal views and informal “wine” audits by shareholders and analysts after the accusations levelled at Andrew Irvine.
- Elizabeth Knight
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- National Australia Bank
NAB boss hasn’t engaged with board after ‘difficult’ week
NAB boss Andrew Irvine has made his first public comments since it was reported that investors had raised concerns about his management style and drinking at customer events.
- Clancy Yeates
Under-fire NAB boss set to return to public eye amid turmoil
NAB boss Andrew Irvine will make a return next week at the banking industry’s annual conference, but he will be a no-show at its gala dinner.
- Colin Kruger
Warning to Australians who use credit cards to earn airline points
The generosity of rewards schemes could be scaled back if a proposal to ban surcharges for card transactions goes ahead.
- Elias Visontay
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NAB runs into a governance bin fire with a boozy accelerant
Shareholders airing their grievances about executive behaviour is pretty unusual. And for institutional investors to draw attention to a chief executive’s drinking as a red flag is even rarer.
- Elizabeth Knight
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- Credit cards
‘Snowball effect’: RBA’s card surcharge ban risks higher prices and job cuts
Businesses would be banned from applying surcharges to all credit and debit card transactions from July next year under a Reserve Bank proposal.
- Elias Visontay, Jessica Yun and Shane Wright
Big four banks unite in forecast for rate cut in help for ‘scarred’ households
All of the nation’s biggest banks believe official interest rates will be cut when the Reserve Bank meets next week.
- Shane Wright
CommBank unleashes ‘bot army’ with Aussie accents to trap scammers
Thousands of bots will receive calls from fraudsters, with computer-generated voices mimicking Australian accents and speech patterns wasting scammers’ time.
- Elias Visontay
CBA is now worth over $300 billion, but the experts are cautious
As CBA shares scale new heights, some analysts predict a more subdued outlook for bank shares.
- Clancy Yeates
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There is something strange afoot at Australia’s biggest bank, and experts are stumped
The experts are convinced that Commonwealth Bank is now sailing in “bubble territory”, but why are investors not interested in what they have to say.
- Elizabeth Knight
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