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Paulina Duran is a Sydney-based journalist at The Australian covering financial services, with 15 years of experience as a corporate finance, debt and banking specialist. She was previously a senior financial correspondent at Reuters, and has also worked as a reporter at Bloomberg and the Australian Financial Review.

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M & ACompanies

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Target firms push hefty break fees on bidders

Target companies in M&A deals are increasingly pushing bidders to shoulder far greater regulatory risk.

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BankingFinancial Services

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 14, 2023: Westpac incoming Chairman Steven Gregg during the annual Westpac AGM in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Westpac needs external CEO for ‘significant turnaround’

Westpac’s significant operational turnaround needs the introduction of an external chief executive officer sooner rather than later, banking industry experts say.

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BankingFinancial Services

BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos DECEMBER 14, 2023: Westpac CEO Peter King speaks during the annual Westpac AGM in Brisbane. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Tertius Pickard

Westpac shake-up: new chair fast tracks hunt for CEO

The banking major’s board is actively looking to replace CEO Peter King by the end of the year, a group of analysts and investors have been told in briefings with new chairman Steven Gregg.

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BankingBusiness

Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn, Team Global Express CEO Christine Holgate, and Stockland CEO Tarun Gupta at the bank's Momentum conference in Sydney. , Source: Supplied

CBA mulls land-lease home loans

Commonwealth Bank will consider providing ‘kick-starter’ home loans to young customers to finance landless homes in a model Stockland chief executive Tarun Gupta says would help workers.

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ConferenceBusiness

Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt Comyn with CFO Alan Docherty , Source: Supplied

Big tech accused of getting a profit free pass

Corporate Australia has criticised politicians for alleging business profit gouging while giving big international tech companies ‘a free pass’ on their margins.

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Business

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos FEBRUARY, 12, 2021: General view of a Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) branch in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire/Bianca De Marchi

CBA steps up fight for business loans with new green option

CBA wants to overtake rival NAB as the business lender of choice and hopes its new ‘green’ term loans for medium sized firms will help it get there.

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LEGAL AFFAIRSLegal Affairs

Thomas 'Tom' Hayes, 35, a former trader at banks including UBS Group AG and Citigroup Inc., left, and his wife Sarah, arrive for his trial at Southwark Crown Court in London, U.K., on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. Hayes is accused of eight counts of conspiracy to manipulate the London interbank offered rate, the benchmark used to value more than $350 trillion of loans and securities, from 2006 through September 2010. Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg *** Local Caption *** Thomas Hayes; Sarah

Libor ‘scapegoats’ continue fight for justice

A court will hear the case of two high-profile former traders found guilty of conspiring to rig key benchmark rates following a wrongful conviction referral.

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SuperannuationBusiness

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The super hit menopause makes to women’s savings

One in seven women pays a menopause price from lower super savings due to temporarily or prematurely leaving the workforce, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia says.

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BankingFinancial Services

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos APRIL 12, 2021.Generic imagery of Bank West in Sydney. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Jeremy Piper

CBA to shut Bankwest branches as lender goes digital

About 350 people working at Bankwest branches will be affected when Commonwealth Bank shuts the last of those and turns the Perth-based bank into a digital-only lender by the end of the year.

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Financial ServicesFinancial Services

ASIC senior executive leader for market infrastructure Benjamin Cohn-Urbach and RBA deputy head of payments policy Nicole Pyner at The Network Forum Australasia 2024.

ASIC to boost scrutiny of private markets

The corporate regulator’s increased focus on private markets comes amid growing investor unease over opaque valuations.

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