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NAB receives $150 million tax bill

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
National Australia Bank today announced it had received a revised assessment charge from the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) totalling $150 million after tax. NAB said amended assessments from the ATO in relation to interest deductions claimed by the ...

NAB directors issue ultimatum

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2004
National Australia Bank's seven non-executive directors today delivered an unprecedented ultimatum to shareholders in their bitter dispute with dissident director Cathy Walter - it is her or us! The group of seven non-executive directors, headed by ...

News Corp appoints directors

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2004
... to the company's 13-strong board to replace Graham Kraehe, who resigned to become chairman of troubled National Australia Bank. Former Phillip Morris Asia president Peter Barnes and 36-year-old law professor and adviser to the Bush Administration Viet ...

Market Wrap

... while base metal prices ended higher on the London Metal Exchange. Last Friday, a profit warning from National Australia Bank weighed down the Australian share market with other major banks rattled by speculation of a possible interest rate rise in the ...

NAB shares dive on earnings warning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2004
Shares in National Australia Bank dived more than 2.5% when it warned its first half cash earnings would fall by as much as 5%. The bank, embroiled in a boardroom battle after a forex trading scandal cost it $360 million, said cash earnings after significant ...

NAB to change external auditor

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
National Australia Bank said late yesterday it intends to change its external auditor at the end of the current financial year. Audit committee chairman John Thorn said the bank is ending its long association with KPMG, which came under fire from the ...

RBA decision to leave rates unchanged no surprise

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... pick-up has been very slow coming through and so I'd prefer to leave my rate forecast flat," he said. National Australia Bank chief economist Alan Oster said he had not expected the central bank to hike rates this month. "We think it will be a couple ...

NAB outlines board renewal program

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2004
National Australia Bank (NAB) chairman Graham Kraehe has said that two new appointments to the bank's board would be announced within months. The appointments would be part of a process of board renewal aimed at a "major culture change" at the bank ...

NAB chief executive rules out UK and Irish sell-off

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2004
New National Australia Bank chief executive John Stewart has reportedly scuttled renewed speculation the group was thinking of selling its United Kingdom and Irish operations. In an interview with a UK-based newspaper, Stewart said he had no plans to ...

NAB CFO joins the list of bank departures

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 APR 2004
Embattled National Australia Bank (NAB) is losing another senior executive with chief financial officer Richard McKinnon to leave in the middle of the year. The bank\'s board also ended a two-day crisis meeting in Sydney on Friday, resolving to form ...