Australia and New Zealand Banking Group News

MARKET RAP Time for a breather By R M Cutler MONTREAL - Asian stock exchanges began this week with a promising advance on Monday but Friday saw the MSCI Asia Pacific Index down for the fourth straight day, the longest losing streak in over four months.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA and SUNNYVALE, CA -- -- 11/22/09 -- Zultys, Inc., the leading provider of elegantly simple Unified Communications : and VoIP Business Phone Systems : since 2001, today announced a distribution partnership with Alloy Computer Products of Melbourne, Australia.

Talk about a sticky situation for a company undertaking a capital raising. Crane rental company Boom Logistics entered a trading halt to conduct a $67 million equity raising on Tuesday only to receive a hostile takeover approach from its largest shareholder, Harbrew Group hours later.

ANZ has offloaded its custodian services business to US bank JPMorgan, in a bid to lay the ghost of its securities lending problems.

Over the last two weeks Nortel staff have been learning whether they have a future with the company as the process of integrating the vendor into its new owner Avaya proceeds.

" Australia New Zealand Banking Group, the parent bank of ANZ and National Banks, intends to sell its custodian services businesses in Australasia to investment bank JP Morgan.

Japanese whaling ships left port on Thursday for Antarctic waters for their annual hunt of the ocean giants, Greenpeace said, setting the stage for high-seas confrontations with anti-whaling activists.

In a move that highlights the difficulty of regulating ratings agencies, Standard & Poor's has joined Moody's in withdrawing its application to supply ratings of corporate bonds and other debt-based securities to retail investors in Australia, after new rules were announced this month by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

Police chiefs from around New Zealand and Australia have come together to launch a united stand against drunken violence.

Police chiefs from around Australia and New Zealand will come together to launch a united stand against drunken violence today.

French insurer AXA SA and Australia's AMP Ltd need to sweeten their bid for AXA Asia Pacific Holdings by about 10 percent to seal the proposed $11 billion deal, analysts and fund managers say.

Brightpoint, Inc. announced today that its subsidiary, Brightpoint Australia Pty Ltd , has entered into a distribution agreement with BlueAnt Wireless.

ANZ chief executive Mike Smith has emerged as the nation's highest-paid bank boss, last year taking home the equivalent of $10.9 million.

JUST two big banks now control almost half of Australia's domestic mortgage market with consumer watchdogs warning the lack of competition is hitting homeowners in the back pocket.

Fiji is short of judges, but any Canadian legal eagles who fancy a secondment in a South Pacific tropical paradise and get the call should think once, twice, thrice and then say "no." Seven Sri Lankan judges recently said "yes" when they were asked to fill vacancies on the Fijian bench, but even their journey to the archipelago of 322 islands and ...

Hypercom Corporation today announced that Westpac Banking Corporation, one of Australia's largest financial services organizations by market capitalization, has selected and will deploy thousands of Optimum T4200 countertop terminals to merchants throughout Australia.

Wednesday, 11 November 2009, 11:45 am Press Release: Chugg Entertainment "Watching Al Green sing live should be on any list of 'Things to Do Before You Die'." -- New York Times, June 2008 Chugg Entertainment is thrilled and honoured to bring to Australia and New Zealand for the very first time, the peerless prince of soul, the Reverend Al Green.

The Royal Australian Navy's heavy landing ship HMAS Tobruk yesterday arrived in Apia, the capital of Samoa, to deliver humanitarian aid coordinated by AusAID as part of the ongoing support to Samoa and Tonga following the tsunami that devastated parts of both island nations on 30 September.

THE European Union expressed regret on Tuesday at a decision by Fiji's military leader to expel top envoys from Australia and New Zealand, and urged the Pacific Island nation not to isolate itself.

Fletcher Building, New Zealanda s biggest construction company, may report 2010 earnings at the lower end of analystsa forecasts unless there is a a sustainable recoverya in volumes, chairman Rod Deane told shareholders at their annual meeting today.