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National Australia Bank chief executive Andrew Irvine faces an indelicate criticism.

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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While businesses hope to win a cut in the corporate tax rate at the government’s economic roundtable, many firms just want the tax system simplified.

Want a slice of GST with your tiramisu? Businesses press for simpler tax

While big businesses are pressing the federal government for lower taxes, they also want an answer – do I pay GST on my chocolate-flavoured yoghurt?

  • Shane Wright
Robert Menzies and Robbie Williams composite

A tale of two Robbies – and a city with a key dilemma

A former Labor state secretary honouring a Liberal Party icon? Stranger things have happened.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
The Premier Chris Minns says there will be no changes to Crown’s casino licence.

Why Crown workers are threatening to expose Barangaroo casino’s dirty laundry

Workers at the Sydney casino will vote on whether to take industrial action as negotiations break down in a protracted pay dispute.

  • Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Governor Michele Bullock is expected by all of the nation’s biggest banks to announce an interest rate cut next week.

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
Commonwealth Bank is introducing two-factor authentication for desktop banking.

‘Convenience is at odds with security’: Why it’s going to be slower – and safer – to access your money

Payments experts say banks have been ‘slow out of the blocks on digital security’. The banks say they’re world leaders.

  • Madeleine Heffernan
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Australians lose more than $1 billion in investment scams per year.

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
Commonwealth Bank’s sharemarket valuation broke through $300 billion this week.

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
Wall Street rallied in its first trading session of the week, but it wasn’t enough to hold up the ASX.

ASX closes near all-time high, led by energy stocks; CBA jumps above $180

The Australian sharemarket extended its gains after a solid lead from Wall Street and softer-than-expected local GDP figures, which raised hopes for further rate cuts.

  • Staff reporters
The money laundering allegations against the Commonwealth Bank included claim the criminals used ATMs to deposit large cash amounts.

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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