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Eric Johnston is an associate editor of The Australian. He has more than 25 years experience as a finance journalist, including a former business editor of The Australian. He has been business editor of The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age and financial services editor with The Australian Financial Review. His work has also appeared in The Wall Street Journal.

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Opinion

Centro Retail Australia chairman and former deputy ANZ CEO at his home in Kew, Melbourne, Victoria.

Penalising big banks is perverse

ANY threat to the financial system is likely to come from small lenders, large institutions.

Bob Edgar

Companies

Samantha Carrett at Oar and Horan Dentists

Winners are grinners at Pacific Smiles

DENTAL care chain Pacific Smiles lifted more than a third on its ASX debut on Friday in the second blockbuster listing for the week.

Prashant Mehra

Financial Services

Great Western dividend for NAB

NATIONAL Australia Bank’s majority-owned US subsidiary Great Western Bank has lifted its full year net profit.

Eric Johnston

Financial Services

FOR BUSINESS: The Bendigo Bank building is to be auctioned.

Bendigo ties up with credit unions

BENDIGO and Adelaide Bank has secured an agreement with four credit unions that will see it establish a new banking model.

Mitchell Neems

Business

Both sides to benefit from China FTA

ALTHOUGH China is already Australia’s largest trading partner, a free trade agreement is expected to help both countries.

Paul Bloxham

Business

Western Sydney tycoons. Paul Lederer runs Primo Smallgoods at Chullora. The company started up in 1985 and has since set up meat processing plants in 3 other states.

Lederer set to bring home more bacon

WESTERN Sydney Wanderers soccer club chairman Paul Lederer could be in for a windfall.

Edited by Bridget Carter

Business

ACCC chief backs plan to split NBN

ACCC boss Rod Sims will back recommendations to split the NBN into technology-based parts to promote competition.

John Durie

Business

Workplace bullying extends to Facebook?

SOON after taking over DP World, Paul Scurrah was dismayed to find the practices he heard about as a child were still occurring.

Ewin Hannan

EXCLUSIVEG20

G20. Bank of England Governor , Mark Carney , talks about the G20 at the summit venue in Brisbane.

New rules put a lid on rates: Carney

CASH rates will be very slow to rise and won’t return to pre-crisis levels, according to Bank of England governor Mark Carney.

David Uren

EXCLUSIVEG20

Shadow banking to feel heat: Carney

THE attention of financial regulators will now turn from the banks to market-based finance.

David Uren

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