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Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... interviewing. If the leadership team are all men, and the support team are all women, ask what that might say about their culture. I'd also say to find a strong mentor of any gender who acknowledges that sexism is an issue, and actively works to ...

Financial services workers hunt new roles

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... The survey found professionals reported that in a workplace they most value being surrounded by inspiring colleagues and culture, job security and flexible working arrangements. The survey found that on average, those in banking and financial services ...

BOQ acquires ME Bank

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2021
Bank of Queensland has acquired industry super-owned ME Bank for $1.325 billion. The move sees BOQ acquire 100% of ME Bank for $1.325 billion cash, funded by an underwritten capital raising of $1.35 billion. The price represents 1.15 times ME's ...

Westpac prioritises risk management

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
Westpac announced risk management and rebuilding its culture will be its top priorities for 2021. The bank paid $105 million to about 548,000 customers it has wronged during the first quarter ending December 2020, as announced in a trading update this ...

Cbus hires new group executive

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... sector has expanded its leadership team with a new hire. Kristin Miller has been appointed as group executive, people and culture. "We are very pleased to welcome Kristin Miller to the leadership team at Cbus, Kristin is joining the fund as it continues ...

Financial services sees improved mental health

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... 2019 (up by 3.3 points to 67.6 out of 100). All five domains of thriving workplaces (connectedness, leadership, policy, culture and capability) showed improvement, with the policy domain recording the strongest improvement. The study found that during ...

AMP Capital still being dressed up for sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... acknowledged that cultural issues were having a felt impact and that AMP was listening to feedback from clients. "Clearly, on culture, it is my number one priority. We have set out a comprehensive program of work with a whole series of initiatives," ...

Frontier on hiring spree

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... application developer and Socrates Toussas as IT support engineer. Lastly, Stephanie Hosking has been appointed people and culture adviser. The hires come as Frontier looks to diversify its business beyond its traditional superannuation clients, who ...

APRA commends super funds on tough year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... These included maintaining financial system resilience, improving outcomes for super members, transforming governance, culture and remuneration accountability and improving cyber resilience. "These areas reflected an expansion of expectations by government ...

Investors unprepared for unexpected events: Study

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2021
... findings, and identified inflexible tooling, lack of cross-functional collaboration, issues with confidence and company culture as stand-out challenges for global enterprises in their crisis preparedness response and planning. Two key challenges identified ...