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TAL appoints two new board members

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2026
... Mentis brings 37 years of financial services experience to the board, including as managing director and chief executive of Bank of New Zealand (BNZ), group executive Business Banking and chief digital, data and analytics officer at NAB, alongside other ...

Cooling economy could keep RBA on hold

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2026
... centres being built in New South Wales and Victoria." Dooley said the easing of growth is a positive sign the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) interest rate hikes have been working. "Three rate rises this year have taken the cash rate to 4.35%, fully ...

US and Aussie shares 'incredibly divergent': UniSuper

VINNY VUCAGO  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2026
... SpaceX, which could become the largest initial public offering in history, as well as upcoming decisions from the Reserve Bank of Australia and the US Federal Reserve. "I'm actually pretty confident [the RBA will] hold steady in June," he said. Colosimo ...

ASIC flags stronger fintech collaboration

VINNY VUCAGO  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2026
... and financial institutions alike to balance innovation with consumer protection and operational resilience. Commonwealth Bank of Australia group executive Stuart Munro described the current pace of technological development as "an exceptional moment ...

Inflation eases, experts split on next RBA move

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... Underlying inflationary pressures also remained elevated. Trimmed mean annual inflation closely watched by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) as a measure of underlying price growth, edged up to 3.4% in the 12 months to April 2026, up from 3.3% in the ...

ASX tech spend drives capex to $200m

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... the Accelerate program. The program involves a reset of new targets and benchmarking agreed to by ASIC and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and "reviewing workstream target states to ensure appropriate aspiration" for its key role as the operator ...

Westpac fined $26m for financial hardship neglect

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2026
... loans, contacted the bank on financial hardship grounds between 2017 to 2023 via subsidiaries St George Bank, Bank SA and Bank of Melbourne. Westpac blamed the oversight on "technology failure". On the contrary, Justice McEvoy said, "while the contraventions ...

AMP new boss overhauls executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2026
... and regulatory reporting, performance reporting, tax and corporate strategy. Before that, she was a managing director at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the financial institutions group based in New York for 14 years and worked at Westpac. She will ...

Investors thrust into rules of the 'jungle': Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... as well." Australia, though, is an outlier compared to its peers. Over the next 12 months, Mousina predicts the Reserve Bank of Australia will raise the base rate twice. At the May meeting, interest rates rose by 25bps to 4.35%. "That is going to put ...

Bell Financial launches Tandem Capital

VINNY VUCAGO  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2026
... arrangements through a dedicated portal. The launch comes as demand for margin lending rebounds. According to Reserve Bank of Australia data cited by the firm, the value of margin loans increased to about $16.8 billion in December 2025, up from just ...
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