Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 2351 - 2360 of 17956 results for "Bank"

CFS joins firms in net zero alignment

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
As the COP26 summit approaches Colonial First State (CFS), the NZ Super Fund and Goldman Sachs have announced their commitment to net zero initiatives. CFS announced its alignment to the goals of the Paris Agreement and is committing to net zero emissions ...

BOQ divests St Andrew's Insurance

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Bank of Queensland will offload St Andrew's Insurance for $23 million after receiving approval from APRA. BOQ announced on 14 October 2020 that it entered into an agreement with Farmcove Investment Holdings to sell St Andrew's subject to APRA's ...

Westpac director stands down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
A non-executive director at the big four bank has resigned from the board to focus on his health. Steven Harker joined the Westpac board in 2019 and was a member of the audit, board legal, regulatory and compliance and remuneration committees. "The ...

Centuria, MAF make joint acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
... be launched in 2022. Around 72% of the site's gross income is from government and blue-chip organisations such as Reserve Bank of Australia, JLL and Minter Ellison. It has a Weighted Average Lease Expiry of four years. "We are very pleased to work in ...

AFCA appoints senior ombudsmen

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
In what is a newly created role at the industry body, internal promotions have seen the appointment of seven senior ombudsmen. The Australian Financial Complaints Authority has created the new role to strengthen its dispute resolution efforts, with ...

Macquarie Equities awards back-office mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
... Party Platform. TPP, the subsidiary of ASX-listed Bell Financial Group, will begin servicing Macquarie Equities' private bank and wrap platform this month. TPP has been providing settlement and clearing services to Bell Potter Securities since November ...

Commonwealth Financial Planning to shutter

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Financial Planning is closing, Commonwealth Bank announced today. From today forward, Commonwealth FP cannot take on any new financial advice clients. Existing advisers and clients will have until November 30 to work out next steps, before ...

Law firm adds financial services partner

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
Corrs Chambers Westgarth has appointed a new partner in financial services regulatory specialist Steven Rice. Rice joined the Corrs Financial Services Group team earlier this month, based in Sydney. He specialises in financial services, financial markets ...

Two senior leaders exit Iress

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
... he said. Prior to Iress, Blomfield was the chief executive of Investment Trends. He also held senior roles at Commonwealth Bank, MF Global and Dendiri Advisory. Group executive of strategy and client solutions Simon New takes over as chief commercial ...

End of the road for Dollarmites

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2021
Commonwealth Bank has ditched its 90-year-old Dollarmites program after the state governments' banning of school banking schemes. The New South Wales government is the latest to jump on board and ban bank-run marketing schemes in classrooms after ...