Safe as houses: ANZ wins the tick it craves so badly
July 29, 2008
ANZ Bank was yesterday given a much-needed vote of confidence by two of the major credit agencies, after they maintained its all-important double-A rating in the wake of the bank's decision to provide an additional $1.2 billion for its bad-debt cover.
ANZ says provisions seen rising to A$1.2 bln in H2 (Reuters)
Reuters - ANZ bank , Australia's third-biggest lender, issued a profit warning on Monday, forecasting more than $1 billion in bad debt charges, as the global credit crisis started to hurt the country's previously buoyant banks.
Investors await surprises in Westpac earnings
Investors will be watching for surprises when Westpac releases its half year results, a week after ANZ Bank revealed nearly $1 billion in provisions against potential losses.
ANZ Bank pipped in Hong Kong bank bid
China Merchants Bank pips ANZ Bank as the preferred bidder for Hong Kong's Wing Lung Bank.
05/23/08
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Westpac ups its rate
Westpac raised its lending rates by 0.10 percentage points today, following the lead of ANZ Bank and NAB.
04/28/08
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Gunns shares drop on ANZ pullout reports
Gunns' shares have fallen sharply in early trade on the back of reports the ANZ Bank will not fund the controversial $2 billion Tasmanian pulp mill.
Gloomy outlook for commodities
Commodities prices may drop faster next year, pressured by slumping global demand and a strengthening US dollar, according to ANZ Bank.
08/20/08
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ASX high at noon as Wall St soars
The Australian stock market was up at noon as News Corporation Ltd reported robust fourth-quarter and full-year results.
08/06/08
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Westpac expect 8% cash earnings growth
Westpac Banking Corporation says it is on track to deliver 2008 cash earnings growth of between six and eight per cent.
ANZ sacks two after Opes Prime review
A review of ANZ Banking Group's securities lending operations has found risk controls were inadequate in the period leading up to the Opes Prime crisis.
No deal: ANZ takes bailout off table
THE future of the specialised financial services provider Chimaera Capital was again called into question last night after the ANZ Bank walked away from a deal to invest $55 million in the company.
War of words over Opes will leave...
Reputations are going down with a very leaky ship, writes Colin Kruger.
ANZ makes Opes offer
ANZ Bank offers Opes Prime's administrators a 62-cents-in-the dollar settlement.
Babcock in Tricom recapitalisation
Investment bank Babcock & Brown says it has joined ANZ Banking Group in the recapitalisation of troubled stockbroking firm Tricom Equities.
04/08/08
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Fortescue chair loses $20m in Opes saga
Fortescue Metals Group chairman Herb Elliott appears to have lost more than half of his $38 million fortune after the Opes Prime collapse.
ANZ shares plunge 9%
Investors have hammered ANZ Bank after it flagged $1.2 billion in bad debt provisions for the 2008 second half.
Westpac cash profit expected to rise
Westpac Banking Corporation is expected to sidestep the bad debt troubles faced by the ANZ Bank and report a healthy rise in first-half cash profit.
Beconwood skirts costs in Opes stoush
Beconwood Securities will not have to pay costs from its first legal stoush against collapsed stockbroker Opes Prime and ANZ Banking Group, even though it lost.
Another pile-up as bad lending practices exposed
Mr Smith, what a mess. The ANZ Banking Group has taken a commanding lead in the race for line honours to determine the bank most likely to end the decade in disgrace.
Primebrokers appoints administrators
CHRIS ZAPPONE Primebrokers Securities, a firm linked to the margin loan-hit Chimaera Capital, has entered voluntary administration.
Legal action not over on Opes share sale
More companies are foreshadowing legal action in relation to the Opes Prime collapse and the ANZ Banking Group sell-down of shares.
Opes investors lose sale halt bid
A group of investors in failed brokerage Opes Prime have failed in their legal bid to halt the sale of their share portfolio by the ANZ Bank.
ANZ, Merrill face fresh legal action...
Law firm Slater & Gordon has begun legal action against ANZ Banking Group and Merrill Lynch on behalf of former clients of failed stockbroker Opes Prime.
Commonwealth Bank hikes home loans
Commonwealth Bank has ramped up its benchmark mortgage rate by 0.14 per cent a week or so after the RBA said there was no need to lift official rates higher.
Australia's Commonwealth Bank eyeing...
Reuters - Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA)
, the country's No. 2 bank by assets, may offer over
A$6 billion ($5.2 billion) to British bank HBOS for
its Australian unit...