Country: Australia

Executive Interview: Iris Dempsey - FNB Corporate

(6 October 2003 – Australia) Australia’s banking community generally knows little about banking in South Africa and vice versa. Yet,...

Business Development & Expansion, Executive Interview, Research

East & Partners

Australia

Returning traders contribute to CommSec’s record month

(Australia) Commonwealth Bank’s online broking facility recorded more than 400,000 trades in September, breaking its previous record of 368,456 trades...

e-Banking, Investment

CBA

Australia

Aussie M&A activity on the rise

(Australia) Australian involvement in mergers & acquisitions activity has risen 51 percent to more than US$46 billion in the first...

Market share, Mergers & Acquisitions

ABN Amro, Deutsche, JP Morgan, Macquarie

Australia

Mac Bank continues offshore expansion

(Australia/UK) Macquarie Bank has acquired UK water utility South East Water (SEW) from French company Bouygues for A$948 million.SEW is...

Mergers & Acquisitions

Macquarie

Australia, UK

CBA goes lite on EFTPOS terminals

(Australia) Commonwealth Bank has launched its Paylite EFTPOS terminal targeting smaller businesses that process under $100,000 in card transactions each...

Operations, Transaction Banking

CBA

Australia

ANZ steps up with $1 billion issue

(Australia) ANZ’s Stapled Exchangeable Preferred Securities (ANZ StEPS) offer closed fully subscribed and the bank has issued $1 billion of...

Investment

ANZ

Australia

ANZ gets new CIO

(Australia) ANZ has named Mike Grime as successor to high profile CIO David Boyles.Grime will join the bank from Standard...

Executive Changes

ANZ

Australia

NAB issues Tier One security

(Australia) National Australia Bank has announced it will issue STG400 million (A$972.8 million) in Tier One Trust preferred securities.The security...

Foreign Exchange, Investment

NAB

Australia