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Investment in programs for Aboriginal women and girls needed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... literacy. "The financial services sector has played a very constructive role at working at that base level of developing basic banking products, and thinking about how they can help people," she said. "I would see this as an evolution across that early ...

Commonwealth Bank reports increased customer satisfaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... an employee engagement survey, with a result of 80%, which the bank said puts in within the top quartile of the global banking industry. However, voluntary employee turnover increased slightly over 2011 at 12.9%, up from 12.65% in 2011. Lost time injury ...

Operational changes needed to strengthen AGM voting: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... weak," said Dean Paatsch, director of Ownership Matters. "That's the take-away. It's not rocket science at all. If we ran a banking system in the same way we run a system of distribution of votes, there'd be a national outcry." The study examines the ...

SEFA: developing sustainable loan portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... carefully and slowly to build up a sustainable loan book rather than get a lot of money out the door. The trick in any banking activity isn't the money going out the door, but the money coming back in the door when it's supposed to be." SEFA is one of ...

ANZ, GPT Group named 2012 DJSI supersector leaders

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
ANZ Bank and GPT Group have been named supersector leaders for banking and real estate in the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) review. DJSI has released its annual update to its sustainability indices, as announced by SAM, an investment ...

Industry leaders establish Banking and Finance Oath

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
A group of professionals from the banking and finance industry have established the Banking and Finance Oath (BFO), an organisation that seeks to restore trust and encourage ethical behaviour in the financial services industry. Stephen Dunne, AMP Capital ...

Broadbent named chair of CEFC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... panel. Carapiet comes to the CEFC after a 22-year career at Macquarie Bank, where he served as head of the investment banking division of Macquarie Capital and became the executive chair in 2010. He is currently the chair of SAS Trustee Corporation NSW ...

ANZ a leader in financial inclusion, with scope to expand

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... Laurence in 2006, 1,409 loans have been approved to 1,259 customers with an average default rate of 2%. But changes to the banking environment in the past six years mean that there is wider availability of finance to people with low incomes, including ...

Transparency International publishes anti-corruption report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... within the financial services sector, with 96% transparency on anti-corruption programmes and an overall score of 6. ANZ Banking, with an 88% score, was the fourth most transparent global financial services and had an overall score of 6.3. Commonwealth ...

NAB partners to launch Victorian microfinance retail hubs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... of repayment for credit cards, Mooney said. NAB says that while some Good Money customers may transition to mainstream banking products and services, it isn't central to NAB's strategy. "We know that may occur, but it's not a core driver because the ...