Australasia

FinanceAsia Awards 2025 -- open now

Entries are now open for the 29th edition of the FinanceAsia Awards which celebrate the best banks, brokers, consultants, rating agencies, law firms and other financial institutions across the region.

January 14, 2025

ASIC starts legal action against troubled airline Rex and four directors

Australia's Regional Express Holdings, backed by Asian investment firm PAG, collapsed into administration earlier this year.

December 17, 2024

ANZ appoints Nuno Matos as next CEO

Matos will relocate from Hong Kong to Melbourne and replace outgoing CEO Shayne Elliot in July 2025.

December 09, 2024

FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2024: the winners

All the winners of the FinanceAsia Achievement Awards 2024 across the five categories.

November 26, 2024

Anglo American exits Australian coal steelmaking assets with Peabody sale

Anglo American has agreed to sell its Australian based steelmaking coal business to US firm Peabody Energy for around $3.8bn.

November 26, 2024

CBRE hires Hugh Macdonald as Apac head of capital advisers

The banking veteran has joined the real estate and investment firm in Sydney from Deutsche Bank; he will relocate to Singapore in 2025.

November 18, 2024

Citi names Robert Stewart as Asia head of equities trading

The former head of Citi’s Apac equity derivatives trading will relocate from Singapore to Hong Kong and cover Asia South, Japan, Asia North and Australia.

October 07, 2024

European regulators ‘unlikely’ to follow Australia’s lead over AT1 bonds: Fitch

The move by Australia to phase out the bonds may reflect the unusually high level of retail investor holdings of AT1 instruments in the country, Fitch Ratings said.

September 23, 2024

Tessa Dann to lead SocGen’s Apac sustainable finance team

Sydney-based Dann to lead SocGen’s sustainable finance unit across Asia Pacific after previously running Australia and New Zealand.

September 16, 2024

APRA eyes phasing out AT1 bonds

The Credit Suisse crisis shows that the bonds don't necessarily provide stability to banks and investors as designed; APRA has proposed a different capital framework from January 1, 2027.

September 10, 2024