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Treasury responds to ABA derision over bank levy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... benefits from, and is part of, the banking industry. This includes NAB's 10 million customers, 570,000 direct NAB shareholders, those who own NAB shares through their superannuation, our 1700 suppliers and NAB's 34,000 employees. The levy cannot be absorbed ...

Government fintech agenda spotlights microbanking

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... boost, providing additional sources of capital to newer companies who will now be allowed an unlimited number of CSEF shareholders. Additional provisions include enhancing the regulatory sandbox for fintech companies by allowing testing of holistic financial ...

Banking scrutiny to escalate: ABA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... industry conference that Australians have lost trust in the banks' ability to balance the interests of customers and shareholders, resulting in the "implosion of trust [leading] to an explosion of scrutiny." Consequentially, more than 20 reviews into ...

Minto joins EQT board

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... private client, superannuation and corporate trustee business," Killen added. Minto will submit himself for election by shareholders at the company's 2017 AGM.

Countplus appoints new CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2017
... revitalised approach to capturing greater growth upside on behalf of Countplus member firms, their clients and company shareholders," Countplus chair Barry Lambert said. "We expect Matthew to hit the ground running given his strong familiarity with the ...

Bank inquiry recommends breaking big four oligopoly

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016
... should be introduced. The inquiry also said the government should review whether the 15% threshold for substantial shareholders in deposit-taking institutions was an "undue barrier to entry" for new players in the sector, arguing APRA should "improve ...

Royal Commission won't hit banks where it hurts

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... Royal Commission can force the major banks into becoming 'customer-centric'. The major banks will always put their shareholders before their customers." Degotardi concluded by suggesting that there was no way banks could become "customer-centric," asserting ...

NAB shareholders vote for UK exit

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
NAB shareholders have voted overwhelmingly in favour of the bank's demerger with Clydesdale in the UK. At the bank's scheme meeting today in Melbourne, NAB group chair Dr. Ken Henry explained the demerger would be structured with a new holding company ...

Vertically-integrated advice model can work

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... necessarily a flaw if managed properly. "If you do the right things by your customers, you do the right things by your shareholders," he explained. "Ultimately, you just have to ask yourself: when you are providing financial advice, are you a service ...

Westfield restructure gets green light, UniSuper to retain holding

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... for defeat at the May 29 meeting, with only 74.1% of proxy votes cast in favour of the move. Australian Shareholders Association spokesman Steven Mayne said Westfield had run a well orchestrated campaign to win over institutional investors in the past ...