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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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Financial Services

Mature market will challenge Hartzer

AS Brian Hartzer takes charge of Westpac next year his challenge will be to continue to squeeze outsized earnings growth from a mature banking market.

Eric Johnston

Business

Atlas, BC Iron in freefall

THE sell-off in iron ore equities has continued, putting the Australian sharemarket back into a short-term downtrend.

David Rogers

Business

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Firms splash cash to stay safe

A TREND among large Australian companies to hand back cash to shareholders is gathering pace.

Prashant Mehra

Wall Street Journal

Barclays Capital logos are seen on the Lehman Brothers building on Wall Street in New York, 23/09/2008. Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc filed for Chapter 11 a week ago and since then, they sold their North American banking business to Barclays and its Japanese and Australian units to Nomura.

Regulators put investors on hook

NEW proposals from the global Financial Stability Board aim to ensure that taxpayers should never again foot the bill for banks.

PAUL J. DAVIES

Business

APN Outdoor solid on debut

APN Outdoor shares lifted more than 8 per cent on the billboard company’s ASX debut yesterday.

Prashant Mehra

Markets

Debt financing in demand

DEMAND for debt financing will continue to rise, driven by the merger and acquisition cycle.

Maggie Lu Yueyang

Wall Street Journal

This picture taken on October 30, 2014 shows a man checking his mobile phone under the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) sign in the central business district of Sydney. The ANZ on October 31, 2014 announced record annual net profit of 6.5 billion USD -- up 15 percent -- pursuing an Asia-focused growth strategy. AFP PHOTO / Saeed KHAN

ANZ nabs executive for China

ANZ has tapped Huang Xiaoguang, a senior executive from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, to run its China business.

ENDA CURRAN

Financial Services

Provisions take slice out of HSBC

BANKING giant HSBC has posted weaker-than-expected results for the third quarter.

MARGOT PATRICK

Opinion

Clive’s in the tent

THE world changed this week in two very significant ways. Neither was very well appreciated.

Terry McCrann

Robert Gottliebsen

NAB has some serious problems at home

DEEP in the NAB profit announcements are a number of serious Australian problems facing the bank.

Robert Gottliebsen

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