Lucas Baird is a journalist at The Australian Financial Review. He specializes in the banking and financial services sectors, covering themes such as finance, trading, and financial technology, while also delving into topics like business leaders, markets, and issues of corruption and fraud in Australia. His insights and analyses have been featured prominently in various publications.
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By: Jonathan Shapiro, Lucas Baird
ANZ Bank staff have been threatened with dismissal if they are caught leaking to the media, with would-be informants warned that spilling bank intel is considered a breach of its code of conduct and raises privacy issues.
By: Lucas Baird, James Eyers
Bankers inside Commonwealth Bank’s retail division figured a small branch cash withdrawal charge was innocuous. They were wrong.
By: Lucas Baird, James Eyers
Michael Rowland said he would leave next year, taking to three the number of senior positions to be filled by the bank’s new chief executive.
By: Lucas Baird
Perpetual and KKR said they were “continuing to engage constructively”, but the independent expert said the sale was not in the best interest of investors.
By: Lucas Baird
Binance Australia employees were allegedly incompetent and misclassified hundreds of retail mum-and-dad investors as “sophisticated” entities, exposing
By: Lucas Baird
Shareholders have handed the bank its first strike against remuneration in six years, furious about the handling of the crisis engulfing its trading floors.
Living in Sydney’s Inner West makes Anthony Miller an outlier among big bank chiefs, and the former investment bankers is determined to make Westpac stand out too.
By: Lucas Baird
Anthony Miller has thrown his weight behind the NSW government’s ambitious push to bypass local councils and reform planning laws.
By: Lucas Baird
Regulators will review a high-profile failure in the ASX's settlement systems that hindered millions of trades last week, with market participants
The John Kinghorn-founded RAMS Home Loans has fallen to an $18 million loss as parent company Westpac mothballs the business amid allegations of fraud and misconduct within its franchisee network.
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