ASX Announcements
Dividend Record Date, Dividend Pay Date, Dividend Rate
- Dec 19, 2023
- 5 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - BOQ
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Dec 15, 2023
- 8 pages
Notification regarding unquoted securities - BOQ
Appendix 3G (Notification of Issue, Conversion or Payment up of Unquoted Equity Securities)
- Dec 14, 2023
- 7 pages
Notification of cessation of securities - BOQ
Appendix 3H (Notification of cessation of securities)
- Dec 12, 2023
- 5 pages
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The good, bad and ugly of business in 2023
Big deals, dud deals, scandals and success stories. In a year of high drama and big market moves, we look back at the winners and losers.
- Updated
- James Thomson
This Month
- Updated
- AGM season
Late, overloaded board papers blindsided directors: BoQ chair
Shareholders delivered a stinging rebuke to Bank of Queensland after risk failures triggered two regulatory actions this year.
- Liam Walsh
November
George Frazis plots comeback
Frazis is preparing for his next innings – this time as an adviser on debt capital markets deals.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Turnbull’s former private secretary appointed RBA spinner
Malcolm Turnbull’s former private secretary, Sally Cray, has been appointed as the Reserve Bank of Australia’s new chief communications officer.
- John Kehoe
BoQ hit by fifth executive departure in a year
Martine Jager’s exit from the bank, where she was chief people and customer officer, was announced to staff on Friday.
- Liam Walsh
Westpac to dump PwC as its auditor
The bank said it would not invite the embattled firm, its current auditor, to tender for external audit services, citing “best practice for audit firm rotation”.
- James Eyers, Lucas Baird and Edmund Tadros
‘Weak board decision-making’: APRA hits RAC Insurance
The prudential regulator’s action against the West Australian organisation marks its latest snap at customer-owned insurers.
- Liam Walsh
October
Suncorp cuts management jobs in latest finance sector losses
But the company does not expect any other major changes ahead of an appeal on the decision to block the sale of its banking arm to ANZ scheduled for next year.
- Liam Walsh
BoQ belatedly reveals exec’s exposure to $42m in loans
Many finance executives take out home loans with their employer, but few disclose $42 million in commercial loan exposures.
- Updated
- Myriam Robin
Why analysts aren’t buying the BoQ turnaround yet
There was a telling moment of exasperation in Bank of Queensland’s annual result presentation last week.
- Lucas Baird
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why BoQ’s ugly result had analysts on the attack
Bank of Queensland is trying to sell investors light at the end of an 18-month tunnel. But CEO Patrick Allaway is trying to execute a turnaround in a deeply unhelpful environment.
- Updated
- James Thomson
BoQ’s Allaway urges patience as shares dive on earnings miss
Citi analyst Brendan Sproules said earnings had yet to trough for Bank of Queensland.
- Lucas Baird
September
BoQ cuts 250 jobs as profit takes a hit
Bank of Queensland has become the latest bank to reduce its staff ahead of revealing its results next month.
- Liam Walsh
Brace for lower dividends if bank hybrid rules change
Investors should brace for lower dividends and fewer share buybacks from the major banks if they are forced to reduce their reliance on popular, but complex, hybrid bonds to meet capital requirements.
- Lucas Baird
August
BoQ exec calls it quits, leadership team shrinks to eight
In an all-staff memo seen by AFR Weekend, CEO Patrick Allaway says chief operations officer Paul Newham has retired.
- Lucas Baird and Liam Walsh
Patrick Allaway having his way with BoQ
On Monday, his brass nameplate was finally drilled in, yet the question persists: does Allaway really know how to run a retail bank?
- Joe Aston
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why smaller banks like Bendigo and BoQ have a big problem
Bendigo & Adelaide Bank has made good progress on costs and returns. But as loan growth shrinks, scams rise and inflation keeps pushing higher, scale counts.
- James Thomson
June
‘Picking pennies in front of the steamroller’: Citi warns on BoQ risks
As investors start to consider the bank’s buy case, seemingly attracted to the cheap valuation, the broker says the optimal entry point is yet to arrive.
- Lucas Baird
ANZ is fighting to convince us that the banking oligopoly is dead
The proposed purchase of Suncorp’s bank will reshape how regulators, and the public, see a sector long dominated by four major players in the future.
- Karen Maley
The new way mortgage lenders are trying to win you over
Some home loan issuers are looking at new ways to pull good-quality borrowers out of mortgage prison – and on to their books.
- Lucy Dean
