James Eyers
Senior Reporter, Financial Services at Australian Financial Review
Covering banks, payments and fintech at The Australian Financial Review in Sydney / [email protected] +612 9282 3965
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Apr 21, 2025 – 8.00pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? As Tropical Cyclone Alfred hovered ominously off the Queensland coast during the first week of March, Suncorp chief executive Steve Johnston was thinking: could this be the big one?
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Apr 20, 2025 – 7.44am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Andy Schmulow is fired up. His gripe? Companies are too big and too powerful. So much so, they’re threatening democracy’s foundations, corrupting politicians and bureaucrats with excessive lobbying and generous donations. Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. Loading...
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Bank of Queensland boss Patrick Allaway has agreed with the board to remain at the helm for at least another 18 months to see through a radical digital transformation of the regional lender designed to arrest a shrinking mortgage book and improve returns amid intense competition. Allaway has taken an axe to BoQ to reduce a bloated cost base and put it on a more sustainable foundation.
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Two of the country’s best-known environmentalists, Richard Flanagan and Geoff Cousins, say banks are complicit in the destruction of Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania after funding Tassal’s salmon farming operations. Flanagan, an award-winning author, and Cousins, a former Telstra and PBL board member turned eco-warrior, said the description of the loan extended by Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and Rabobank was misleading at best. Loading... Follow the topics, people and companies that matter to you.
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Green financing provided by banks to fund a politically sensitive Tassal salmon farm in Tasmania have been criticised by two of the country’s best-known environmentalists who described the use of “sustainability linked” loans as wrong and damaging to Macquarie Harbour in the state’s west.
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Thanks to @adam_turner and @alexkidman for having me on their Vertical Hold podcast today to talk about buy now, pay later regulation; our chat starts at the 11minute mark… https://t.co/Rz5tQb5MJp
I joined The Fin podcast today to discuss Apple Pay and Apple’s recent moves into banking - here’s the 30min show @FinancialReview https://t.co/aEUF2vUiIW
ANZ CEO responds to Apple’s 4.15pc savings account in the US, says the move has the big four Aussie banks “on our toes” ahead of growing competition from global tech players offering ‘embedded finance’ @FinancialReview https://t.co/3Xk9yhNbCv